It’s weird because Switzerland is one of the most armed countries in Europe, as in they have firearms but barely any shootings of any kind (so you don’t often hear news equivalent to a guy shooting students in a classroom or killing people at a shopping mall over there). Part of it has to do with the draft (most people who purchase firearms have a form of training, as they learnt how to properly handle them during military service).
According to a quick check on Wikipedia Switzerland has 27.6 firearms per 100 people, so in average you can expect 1 in 4 people to be armed. While the USA has 1.205 weapons per person, so you can expect in average that 1 in 5 people has an extra weapon besides the one 100% of the population does.
I think the 436% increase in weapon per capita might contribute to an increase with gun violence, but that’s just my guess.
I think that should be 1.205 guns per person, or 120.5 guns per hundred people. I know we have some people with massive collections, but I’ve never met someone with literally 10s of thousands of guns. Also the people that own a few hundred are skewing the statistics. We aren’t actually all armed.
120.5/100 == 1.205, it’s the exact same number expressed differently. However, 1.205 implies that everyone has at least one firearm, which is not true. 120.5/100 implies that if you go to 100 random people and count all their guns together, you’ll end up around 120 guns on average.
Sure, but they wrote 120.5 guns per person, and I don’t think we have a stockpile that amounts to 48,000,000,000 weapons. I could believe there are 480,000,000 privately owned weapons in the US, hence my correction/confusion.
You’re correct, in one my edits before submitting I must have erased the 100 there and forgot to move the decimal place, thanks for pointing it out (I’ve edited my post). The rest of the math was done considering the correct number, i.e. 1.2 weapon per person, it was just a wording mistake.