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Originally Posted by barbara
Ike.... I recently read the same statistics except the article I read said that it did not include suicide or accidental shooting for the wrongful deaths.
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A while back I found a worldwide comparison chart of firearms data with all this stuff broken down. Homicide, suicide, accidental, undetermined were the categories I remember with accompanying data for each individual category. I'm trying to find it, but without luck so far.
But what I remember is that in the firearms homicide category, the US was at 2.97 per 100,000 and the UK at .07 per 100,000, or over 40x higher here. I believe in that chart the
total rate including all categories of firearms deaths was over 70 times higher here than in the UK.
There are some third world countries where even our rate looks like a great success. Particularly in Central America and the Caribbean where it's not unusual for the homicide rate to exceed 25 per 100,000. In places like El Salvador and Guatemala between 35 and 40 per 100,000 and Honduras...the highest rate I've found, just under 70 per 100,000. The worst city I've heard of may be Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea where they say you can triple the rate reported by the government which is somewhere in the 50's.
It's a barbarous world and humans are locusts with intelligence and technology.