Hondorus has some of the strictest gun control in the world and has the highest per capita murder rate.
Honduras is in the middle of a huge drug traffic route, was basically a slave society of indigenous peasants ruled by a small minority of Spaniards starting in ~1500, and then by American banana companies in the 20th century, was governed by various military juntas and fought in bloody wars with its neighbors (wars supported by the US) as well as in various guerrilla civil wars up through the early 1980s, during which time American arms companies flooded the place with handguns, is on its 12th constitution dating from 1982 which was amended a further 26 times in the 25 years after that, and most recently was taken over again by a military coup. The country was completely wrecked by a hurricane in 1998 and then again by massive flooding in 2008, and has a basically broken economy. Something like half the population is below the poverty line, and the unemployment rate is 30%.
As for gun control, according to Wikipedia, “Until June 2007, openly carrying a firearm in public as well carrying a concealed weapon was permitted but increased attention to deaths by firearm in the country led to further restrictions on the possession of firearms. Current law still makes the purchase, ownership, and possession of firearms legal and it describes the type of firearms permitted for civilian ownership.”
I’m really not sure why you think this is at all relevant to a conversation about the US, unless you’re trying to argue about how terrible US foreign policy toward Latin America was for the past 200 years, especially during the 1950s–1980s.
By contrast Switzerland essentially requires every household to own a gun. They have the lowest per capita murder rate.
By contrast, if you exclude little city-states, Switzerland is the third richest country by per capita income in the world, after Norway and UAE, which are both oil states, and the wealthiest in per capita assets. The unemployment rate and poverty rate are both extremely low. It has been basically independent and politically stable and relatively untouched by violence in the post-Napoleonic era.
It hands out guns to people during its compulsory military service, which includes something like a half year of strict training. Members of the military keep their guns at home, but don’t keep ammunition there. Acquiring ammunition in Switzerland requires ID, current gun license, address, and criminal history, and ammunition purchases are registered with the government. Swiss are only allowed to carry weapons in public if they have a permit, which generally requires working in a security-related job. Transporting a gun from place to place without such a permit requires that it be unloaded and carried without ammunition, and requires a valid purpose.
Again, nothing at all like the US. Overall, I’d feel much more comfortable if we had something similar to Swiss gun culture in the US. It seems dramatically saner.
If anyone tried to convert the US to Swiss gun laws, the NRA would throw a fit.
