Gun Control thread (merged many)

[Buddahaid]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Some more statistics, a bit dated, around 10 years old, German Wikipedia, basing on Small Arms Survey 2004:

Number of killing incidents per 100,000 population:
USA 3.45 - Canada 0.55 - GER - 0.19

Number of legal firearms owned per killing incident with a firearm:
GER 194K - CAN 48K - USA 28K

Number of legally owned firearms (in brackets: total population in 2014)
USA 281 bn (318 bn)- CAN - 7.9 bn (35 bn) - GER 5.5 bn (80 bn)

Factors for the above ("how many people own one firearm")
USA 1.1 - CAN 4.4 - GER 14.6

Number of homicides with firearms, per 100K firearms
USA 4.2 - CAN 2.2 - GER 0.6

Granted, there are places with much higher numbers of horror. All of them belong to third world countries, failed states, Russia and Latin America. Does one really want to excuse one's own falure by comparing oneself to third world standards?


Of course I had the civilized, the first world on mind when writing that.

Those figures don't add up to the FBI's statistics. 8583 gun murders for 315m people is 0.367 deaths per 100,000 people. That would mean that accidental are 10 times the murder rate.