Is There an Answer?

The massacre in Newtown marks an important difference between the United States and the rest of the West, where gun ownership is severely restricted and tightly regulated. There are 270 millions guns circulating in America, and 40 percent of the population owns at least one, despite the fact that dozens of studies show that having a gun in your home raises your risk of dying in a homicide or suicide fivefold.

But when one considers what is happening in the rest of the world, where the circulation of small arms is extensive and out of control, there is nothing strange about this. There are at least 650 million small arms circulating on our planet, one for every ten people, which kill at least 500,000 human beings a year. That's one death every 60 seconds: 300,000 per year in war, and 200,000 in murders or suicides.

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