BamaD -> RE: All things gun control go here (1/2/2013 2:55:18 PM)
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ORIGINAL: BamaD according to FBI and british homeland stats there is 3.5 times as much violent crime in England and Walse as the is in the U S so it would appear they are Violent crime? If it's reported, that can be some kid getting his lunch money stolen by the local bully. The topic is "All things gun control....". And fair dinkum, where do you get the stats you claim as gospel? Apologies if it's been done before but here's a quick search of wikipedia on firearms deaths. Death rates are per 100,000 of population and you'll find the US stats near the top and surrounded primarily by African and other 3rd world nations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate And since we're primarily westerners, some countries of note (as best as CM's formatting will allow): Country - deaths per 100,000 - homicide - Year of stats USA - 10.2 - 3.7 - 2009 France - 3.0 - 0.22 - 2009 New Zealand - 2.66 - 0.17 - 2010 Canada - 2.13 - 0.5 - 2011 Germany - 1.10 - 0.06 - 2010 Australia - 1.05 - 0.09 - 2008 UK - 0.25 - 0.04 - 2011 Note our land of convicts and that 1 in 10 deaths are homicides whereas in the US, it's nearly 4 in 10. Overall, you're 10 times more likely to die from firearms in the US than Oz. And then there's those "violent" Brits.... Though I've managed to lose the link, I did a search of our federal government's "Australian Bureau of Statistics" on firearms related deaths and can tell you (from memory) that in 2010, there were 231 gun deaths. Given our population is about 23 million, that's 10 per million and correlates with the above Wikipedia stats of 1 in 100,000. Of those 231 deaths, 162 were suicides - which also means another 162 guns were taken off the streets. The remaining 69 were fairly evenly distributed (most to least) amongst accidents, "other" (whatever that means) and crime/law enforcement. Now, starting with the US gun humper's favourite theme that "gun control doesn't work", there's all manner of scope for you to deconstruct with semantics. Enjoy...! Focus. you conviently leave out non gun homocides last time I checked dead is dead regard;essof the weapon
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