Interesting factoid: From the World Health Organization: The latest Murder Statistics for the world: Murders per 100,000 citizens Honduras 91.6 El Salvador 69.2 Cote d'lvoire 56.9 Jamaica 52.2 Venezuela 45.1 Belize 41.4 US Virgin Islands 39.2 Guatemala 38.5 Saint Kits and Nevis 38.2 Zambia 38.0 Uganda 36.3 Malawi 36.0 Lesotho 35.2 Trinidad and Tobago 35.2 Colombia 33.4 South Africa 31.8 Congo 30.8 Central African Republic 29.3 Bahamas 27.4 Puerto Rico 26.2 Saint Lucia 25.2 Dominican Republic 25.0 Tanzania 24.5 Sudan 24.2 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 22.9 Ethiopia 22.5 Guinea 22.5 Dominica 22.1 Burundi 21.7 Democratic Republic of the Congo 21.7 Panama 21.6 Brazil 21.0 Equatorial Guinea 20.7 Guinea-Bissau 20.2 Kenya 20.1 Kyrgyzstan 20.1 Cameroon 19.7 Montserrat 19.7 Greenland 19.2 Angola 19.0 Guyana 18.6 Burkina Faso 18.0 Eritrea 17.8 Namibia 17.2 Rwanda 17.1 Mexico 16.9 Chad 15.8 Ghana 15.7 Ecuador 15.2 North Korea 15.2 Benin 15.1 Sierra Leone 14.9 Mauritania 14.7 Botswana 14.5 Zimbabwe 14.3 Gabon 13.8 Nicaragua 13.6 French Guiana 13.3 Papua New Guinea 13.0 Swaziland 12.9 Bermuda 12.3 Comoros 12.2 Nigeria 12.2 Cape Verde 11.6 Grenada 11.5 Paraguay 11.5 Barbados 11.3 Togo 10.9 Gambia 10.8 Peru 10.8 Myanmar 10.2 Russia 10.2 Liberia 10.1 Costa Rica 10.0 Nauru 9.8 Bolivia 8.9 Mozambique 8.8 Kazakhstan 8.8 Senegal 8.7 Turks and Caicos Islands 8.7 Mongolia 8.7 British Virgin Islands 8.6 Cayman Islands 8.4 Seychelles 8.3 Madagascar 8.1 Indonesia 8.1 Mali 8.0 Pakistan 7.8 Moldova 7.5 Kiribati 7.3 Guadeloupe 7.0 Haiti 6.9 Timor-Leste 6.9 Anguilla 6.8 Antigua and Barbuda 6.8 Lithuania 6.6 Uruguay 5.9 Philippines 5.4 Ukraine 5.2 Estonia 5.2 Cuba 5.0 Belarus 4.9 Thailand 4.8 Suriname 4.6 Laos 4.6 Georgia 4.3 Martinique 4.2 And The United States 4.2 ALL the countries above America have 100% gun bans
What was the murder rate before the ban on guns. Correlation and causation.... Me tends to think that being former colonies of European countries might have more to do with you stat.
Maybe you should compare apples to apples. The USA is the only first world nation on that list. Country and Homicides per 100,000, Western Nations: Denmark 0.9 Finland 2.3 Sweden 1.0 UK 1.2 Germany 0.8 France 1.4 Italy 1.0 Spain 0.9 Switzerland 0.7 Austria 0.5 Japan 0.5 Australia 1.2 Canada 1.8 USA 5.0 Source: http://www.unodc.org/documents/data...Homicide/Globa_study_on_homicide_2011_web.pdf pages 94-99 USA breakdown by race shows enormous divergences. White rate is 3.7, black rate is 41.4, Hispanic 12.0, Asian 3.5, American Indian 11.8. Source: http://www.unodc.org/documents/data...Homicide/Globa_study_on_homicide_2011_web.pdf
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm 3.6 firearm deaths per 100K I am a trauma nurse. Guns do bad things and cost society a lot (people with insurance don't get shot as much). I'd give up my guns in hope of never caring for another gun victim.
And what all those other countries don't have to deal with? A minority population hell bent on killing each other, and ocassionaly whitey catches a stray bullet or two in the crossfire or a robbery. Eliminate the urban crime, mostly minority, and we're right where the rest of your list is.
Wrong! The white murder rate in the USA is 3.7. Look at the last part of my post. European countries have minorities also, btw. Christ, sounds like you live in the housing projects!
Obama couldn't care less about gun control. All of this stuff with guns is a diversion to take the attention off of the out of control spending problem that we have.
Which rightwingers like you didn't give a flying fuck about when Dick and Dubya were spending the country into oblivion. Weren't any teabag asshats protesting when the Bushies were putting two expensive wars on credit cards, but let a Democrat get in office and suddenly Priority Number One is supposed to be the fucking budget. Your ilk is completely pathetic.
From your own source: USA breakdown by race shows enormous divergences. White rate is 3.7, black rate is 41.4, Hispanic 12.0, Asian 3.5, American Indian 11.8. Christ, sounds like you can't fucking read.