I’m a proud gun owner, but Wayne LaPierre of the NRA drives me nuts. He tries to deflect blame for gun violence onto video games, rather than on access to guns. Is he right? Consider a comparison with Japan, which has very few guns in the general population, but which is more fanatical about video games. So, Wayne, let’s look at facts.
Per capita spending on video games
- Japan: $55
- US: $45
Civilian firearms per 100 people
- Japan: .6
- US: 88
Gun homicides in 2008
- Japan: 11 (out of about 1300 total homicides).
- US: 11,030 (out of 16,440 total murders).
