First off, there's a difference between racism and xenophobia, which is the point Chuck was trying to make. Secondly, the number of gun related crimes, deaths, accidents, etc and crimes involving guns is higher in the US than in most of the west - the statistics I could be bothered to find just now put them 8th in the world for gun murders per capita, behind South Africa, Colombia, Thailand, Zimbabwe, Mexico, Belarus and Costa Rica.
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