Texas legislature wants no background checks and NO LICENSES

From: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-18/gun-laws-in-canada-are-more-reasonable-than-those-in-america

"Canada, with a population of 37 million, had 249 homicides by firearm in 2018. The U.S., with a population of 327 million, had 13,958. Louisiana alone, with a population of 4.7 million, had 497. That is, with about one-eighth of Canada’s population, Louisiana, which has some of the laxest gun laws in the U.S., managed to double Canada’s firearm homicides."

This is just tragic. When did people start trying to solve issues with weapons, or when did it get so 'normal'?

According to the UN's Global Study on Homicide, 464,000 people died from violent crimes in 2017, more than armed combat and terrorism combined. The report states that countries with high firearm rates tend to have higher intentional homicide rates.

According to the report, "since the start of the twenty-first century, organized crime has resulted in roughly the same number of killings as all armed conflicts across the world combined. It is estimated that an average of roughly 65,000 killings every year were related to organized crime and gangs over the period 2000–2017, and that up to 19 per cent of all homicides recorded globally in 2017 were related to organized crime and gangs."

There are several countries, however, that have exceptionally low homicide rates. The ten countries with the lowest murder rates are:

Japan (0.2)
Singapore (0.2)
China, Hong Kong (0.3)
Luxembourg (0.3)
Indonesia (0.4)
Norway (0.5)
Oman (0.5)
Switzerland (0.5)
United Arab Emirates (0.5)
China (0.6)

Here are the 10 countries with the highest homicide rates:

El Salvador (82.84 per 100k people)
Honduras (56.52 per 100k people)
Venezuela (56.33 per 100k people)
United States Virgin Islands (49.26 per 100k people)
Jamaica (47.01 per 100k people)
Lesotho (41.25 per 100k people)
Belize (37.60 per 100k people)
Saint Vincent And The Grenadines (36.46 per 100k people)
Saint Kitts And Nevis (34.23 per 100k people)
South Africa (33.97 per 100k people)

Gun availability has very little correlation with homicide rates.

Results. Gun ownership was a significant predictor of firearm homicide rates (incidence rate ratio = 1.009; 95% confidence interval = 1.004, 1.014). [...]
Conclusions. We observed a robust correlation between higher levels of gun ownership and higher firearm homicide rates.

The report IS factually correct.

It shows how Americans are incapable of refraining the use of fire arms to resolve conflict.

Does it make any difference that murder victims were killed with guns instead of killed with knives?

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Does it make any difference that murder victims were killed with guns instead of killed with knives?

So what? Does is make any difference that murder victims were killed with guns instead of killed with knives?

Well, since this thread is about licenses and background checks for firearms the use of knives as murder weapons is off-topic and irrelevant.

In general, however, mass murders are more easily committed with handheld firearms than with handheld knives, for obvious reasons. You don't see police officers and modern combat forces armed solely with knives.

If one refers to the principles and guidelines of profiling, offender profiling, ViCLAS, and Operative Case Analysis, there is another "yes" to that quoted question.