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Originally Posted by Mrs Master
Thats one of the stupidest things Ive read on this forum. Heres the facts my gun toting friend.
Hmm now I wonder what country holds the highest death rate for gun related deaths in the world. After doing a quick google I discovered a study done in 1994. Guess who's first in line.
Here are gun-related deaths per 100,000 people in the world's 36 richest countries in 1994: United States 14.24; Brazil 12.95; Mexico 12.69; Estonia 12.26; Argentina 8.93; Northern Ireland 6.63; Finland 6.46; Switzerland 5.31; France 5.15; Canada 4.31; Norway 3.82; Austria 3.70; Portugal 3.20; Israel 2.91; Belgium 2.90; Australia 2.65; Slovenia 2.60; Italy 2.44; New Zealand 2.38; Denmark 2.09; Sweden 1.92; Kuwait 1.84; Greece 1.29; Germany 1.24; Hungary 1.11; Republic of Ireland 0.97; Spain 0.78; Netherlands 0.70; Scotland 0.54; England and Wales 0.41; Taiwan 0.37; Singapore 0.21; Mauritius 0.19; Hong Kong 0.14; South Korea 0.12; Japan 0.05.
A link to verify
http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcgvintl.html
I've got one question, when you watch the news at night and hear about another child being killed by a gun in your country, does your heart hurt some or are you just thinking about whats for dinner? |
Did you even read the statistics you quoted, or were you hoping we wouldn't? Those aren't the gun death rates for all the countries of the world, only those who fall into the category of "richest in the world". I notice that "rich" isn't defined.
As far as your argument about the children? We call that trolling.