Thread:High King Ithilion/@comment-25754873-20160227023013/@comment-26116279-20160229162100

Actually if you look at the statistics, 3x as many people worldwide are killed by terrorism (most of which occurs in the middle east and africa, and the largest organization of which is ISIS) as by gun violence in america. In addition, gun violence in america has been in decline since 2006. Also a good portion of "gun violence" is suicides which whether there are guns or not it is doubtful they could be prevented.

Sources: Gun violence in america: http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?iid=4616&ty=pbdetail

Terrorist casualties: http://m.state.gov/md239416.htm

Both sources are from 2014 so both are relevant in comparison to each other and relatively recent compared to other older sources.