Beating Guns by Shane Claiborne

Author:Shane Claiborne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian Living/Gun Violence;United States—Church history—21st century;United States—Social conditions;Violence—Religious aspects—Christianity;Firearms—Religious aspects—Christianity;Firearms—United States;REL012110;REL084000;SOC051000
ISBN: 9781493417070
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2019-02-04T05:00:00+00:00

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LAYING IT ALL OUT THERE

I (SHANE) WAS AT A FRIEND’S HOUSE hanging out with their kids, and we grabbed the Guinness Book of World Records off the bookshelf. Flipping through the pages, we laughed at all the amazing feats, gawked at the most bizarre tattoos and piercings, and joked about what record we’d like to try to break. Then I flipped to another page. Most guns. It listed the countries with the most civilian-owned firearms. And, of course, number one was the United States with 270 million guns, or about ninety guns per one hundred people. At the time, the number two country for most guns was India with 46 million, or about four guns per one hundred people. I wasn’t expecting that fact amid all the wild and wonderful things that filled those pages. And this was an old copy of the Guinness Book of World Records.1

It’s not a record we should be proud of. Nor should we be proud to lead the developed world in number of homicides. We hold that record too. Per capita, America has six times as many firearm homicides as Canada, and nearly sixteen times as many as Germany. The US has 29.7 homicides per million people. Switzerland is second with 7.7. Germany has 1.9. Australia 1.4. Gun murder rates in the US per one thousand people are 17 times higher than Australia, 35 times higher than Germany, 37 times higher than Spain, and 355 times higher than Japan. We are an anomaly, and we’d be wise to take some tips from around the world.2

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