Assertion: gun | /r/HasProperty | 1.33 times as common
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text: More-scrupulous advocates for “assault weapon” bans sometimes focus instead on gun-death rates, but that still ignores the question of whether such bans actually make the population safer: A simple comparison of U.S. and foreign gun-death rates includes U.S. suicides by gun (which are 1.33 times as common as American homicides—by any means—and which comprise approximately two-thirds of all U.S. gun deaths) and excludes foreign homicides committed with weapons other than firearms (if a person plotting murder in Australia can’t find a gun but still manages to carry out the crime with a knife or a club, it’s difficult to argue that Australia’s ban on “assault weapons” made the deceased victim safer).