Editorial Ta Nea: Words can kill
Americans constitute 4.4 percent of the global population and own 42 percent of the total number of weapons worldwide.
We have almost become accustomed to it.
When we hear about a mass murder in an American state and then about a second one we shake our heads saying that the country was always violent.
Yet, we are wrong to do so.
America’s problem is that it has a huge amount of weapons.
Americans constitute 4.4 percent of the global population and own 42 percent of the total number of weapons worldwide.
The chances of a New Yorker and a Londoner being robbed are about the same.
Yet, the New Yorker is 54 times more likely to lose his or her life.