wealth inequality, not guns.

[AtheistCrusader]

9. When you reply to ME with stuff for HIM you ensure that he doesn't know anyone's responded to him.

It's the online equivalent of intentionally turning your back on someone that you were talking to and speaking to a nearby bystander, with info meant for the original party to the convo. It's insulting, and not how you hold a conversation.

There is no per-post fee on DU. If you want to respond to him, respond to him, not me. That way you've at least done the courtesy of notifying him that someone has responded to him.

"The sentence above is the first you even mentioned japan on this thread"
That is precisely why I used the word 'Still'. I was not pressing the US/UK comparison any further, again, because of correlation problems. You raised the comparison in response to Johnston.

"MY point was that UK has ten times higher firearm rate"
Firearm murder rate? Firearm ownership rate? Firearm(s) per owner rate? Can you be less specific? (Comparing the two nations myself, I presume you mean firearm ownership rate)

"& thrice the murder rate"
Thrice the total murder rate, or firearm murder rate? I objected upthread due to the loose language used herein for precisely this reason. Do you imagine the presence of firearms drives up the non-firearm murder rate? What is your point here?

I would accept 'other' as possibly Any Other Weapon type classification that we use in the US, possibly illegally sawed off shotguns, illegal fully automatic weapons, machine pistols, zip guns, even air rifles. Sure.