Re: 232 Americans are murdered using guns for every Briton



Joerg wrote:

Eeyore wrote:
Joerg wrote:
bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:

And how long before the rising homicide rate in the UK approaches the
falling homicde rate in the U.S.? When I last looked, the US homicide
rate was four times the UK rate.

That would be two interesting numbers to know but I don't recall any
recent source.


Gun deaths per 100,000 population (for the year indicated):

Homicide Suicide
Unintentional

USA 4.08 (1999) 6.08 (1999) 0.42 (1999)

Canada 0.54 (1999) 2.65 (1997) 0.15 (1997)

Switzerland 0.50 (1999) 5.78 (1998) -

Scotland 0.12 (1999) 0.27 (1999) -

England/Wales 0.12 (1999/00) 0.22 (1999) 0.01 (1999)

Japan 0.04* (1998) 0.04 (1995) <0.01 (1997)

* Homicide & attempted homicide by handgun

Data collected by Philip Alpers, Harvard Injury Control Research Center, and HELP
Network

Additional data can be found in Table A.10 of the World Report on Violence and Health,

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/pr73/en/
published by the World Health Organization on 3 October 2002.

http://www.gun-control-network.org/GF01.htm

Let's recap.......

US gun homicide rate 4.08 / 100,000

UK gun homicide rate 0.12 / 100,000

THE US GUN HOMICIDE RATE IS *** THIRTY FOUR *** TIMES THE > UK RATE !


In your first post it was 232.

The 'headline figure' always grabs the eye ! It's entirely true of course.


Let's see, that would already be a 16dB drop within just a few hours,

With ratios that huge you almost might not notice the difference !


meaning by tomorrow morning the ratio should have reached parity :-)))

If only the USA was that lucky.


Graham

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