Around world, gun rules, and results, vary wildly

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OOI, Japan (AP) — After a tragedy like the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, it's a statistic that is always trotted out. Compared to just about anywhere else with a stable, developed government — and many countries without even that — the more than 11,000 gun-related killings each year in the United States are simply off the charts.

To be sure, there are nations that are worse. But others see fewer gun homicide deaths in one year than the 27 people killed Dec. 14 in Newtown, Connecticut.


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http://news.yahoo.com/around-world-gun-rules-results-vary-wildly-075244259.html

 

[torchthebitch]

I posted some stats in a previous thread.

 

[torchthebitch]

This was it

According to the data I can find, the US has 35-50% of the world's civilian owned fire arms, (a error of 30-33% depending on how you calculate it).

According to the data I can find there were roughly 127,000 firearms related murders world wide, with 9, 146 in the US.

https://***************/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AonYZs4MzlZbdExSbktqRWpLMjNUMkFGVk5VODRyTnc#gid=0

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jul/22/gun-homicides-ownership-world-list#data

So I calculate

5% of the world's population owns

35% of the world's civilian owned guns and has

0.07% of the world's firearms related murders.


Would that be right?

As SeanH pointed out I forgot to multiply the final figure by 100 so it should read 7%

So

5% of the world's population owns

35% of the world's civilian owned guns and has

7% of the world's firearms related murders.

 

[renard_ruse]

Isn't it deeply offensive to politicize the tragedy at that school? We should be mourning the lost children and teachers. What do guns even have to do with it?

 

[torchthebitch]

Isn't it deeply offensive to politicize the tragedy at that school? We should be mourning the lost children and teachers. What do guns even have to do with it?

Carpet? Meet sweepings.