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I know you were offended by the comments that poster made, but let's be serious. As for your final paragraph, there are 300 million people in this country. Developed countries with smaller populations will always be happiest and have the lowest unemployment.
That is not necessarily true. Before your financial meltdown our unemployment was consistently higher than yours.
As for Canada -- ever since they had that guy cut off some guy's head on a Greyhound bus, I've been leery of going there. It seems they have a problem with knives there.
That knife was SHARP man! Way more humane than having some homeless dude eat off another homeless dude's face. We are nothing if not considerate. Seems you have a problem with Zombies there.
The US murder rate is a long-term problem. It's hard to imagine now, but it used to be twice as high even back in the early 90's. But as much as it has fallen, so have the rates in other developed nations, and the ratio remains around the same as it used to be - the US murder rate is persistently 4 to 6 times higher than most Western European nations, 4-5 times higher than Australia and New Zealand, 3 times higher than Canada, and 12-15 times higher than Japan.
That just seems to be the way things go for us.
There are a ton of illegal guns on the streets that account for most/all of it, most legit gun owners are peaceful.
How does a city of 3.4M in South Africa, called Cape Town, manage to garner itself a murder rate of 46.15? South Africa requires "a competency test and several other factors, including background checking of the applicant, inspection of an owner's premises, and licensing of the weapon by the police introduced in July 2004."?
So South Africa has similar gun laws to Canada, actually more strict most likely, yet Cape Town's murder rate is similar to Detroit's? Can you explain that, please? Cape Town is smaller than Toronto, so why the explosion in the murder rate despite strict gun control in South Africa?
A real good example right where I live which is right on the Mexican border. El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, sister cities, similar demographics, they share an economy, El Paso is considered poor by US standards and Ciudad Juarez is one of the wealthier cities of Mexico.
Ciudad Juarez had one of the highest homicide rates in the world. El Paso had one of the lowest. Why the difference? Maybe the drug laws? All drugs are decriminalized in Ciudad Juarez but there are drug laws in El Paso - but also the reverse for guns, guns are legal in El Paso and commonly owned, but illegal in Juarez.
Imagine being a carjacker in this binational metropolitan area -- you've got one side of the metropolitan area where the victims aren't armed, but the other side where they might defend themselves. Same for home invasion - in Juarez everyone has high fences and iron bars over doors and windows -- but no guns, in El Paso they can leave doors and windows open and unlocked because who wants to do a home invasion where the home owner isn't a sitting duck?
A real good example right where I live which is right on the Mexican border. El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, sister cities, similar demographics, they share an economy, El Paso is considered poor by US standards and Ciudad Juarez is one of the wealthier cities of Mexico.
Ciudad Juarez had one of the highest homicide rates in the world. El Paso had one of the lowest. Why the difference? Maybe the drug laws? All drugs are decriminalized in Ciudad Juarez but there are drug laws in El Paso - but also the reverse for guns, guns are legal in El Paso and commonly owned, but illegal in Juarez.
Imagine being a carjacker in this binational metropolitan area -- you've got one side of the metropolitan area where the victims aren't armed, but the other side where they might defend themselves. Same for home invasion - in Juarez everyone has high fences and iron bars over doors and windows -- but no guns, in El Paso they can leave doors and windows open and unlocked because who wants to do a home invasion where the home owner isn't a sitting duck?
Exactly. But, don't wait around for an answer. You won't get any or you'll get one with a non-answer. Gun control, just like alcohol prohibition, never has and never will work.
Drug legalization has nothing to do with it. If drugs were legal in the US then it would put the cartels out of business, but I digress. This topic is about guns not drugs
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Doubt that though unfortunately. 
Seems you have a problem with Zombies there.
