++Josh Marshall today had a valuable piece reminding us we are the most heavily armed nation in the world.
++This post struck me because Mother Jones has a front page investigative piece on "The True Cost of Gun Violence", which I'll get to later.
++According to the Small Arms Survey, the United States has only 5% of the world's population yet between 35 to 50% of the world's small arms. The only country close to our per capital gun ownership is Yemen.
++The United States in the lowest estimate has 83 guns per 100 persons; at the highest 97 per 100.
++Yemen, which is in 10th place, has a low of 32 guns per 100 persons to a high of 90 per 100.
++Think we have a problem?
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