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Today I finished reading "My India" by Jim Corbett.

It doesn't, and far from it. The latest data shows that the US has an average of 3 homicides per 100,000 people a year involving a firearm, the UK at 0.1 and Jamaica at 39.4!!

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If you're going to compare a country against a Central American country, anyone would look good. Central America and Caribean countries dominate this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... icide_rate
Probably a better comparison would be to compare the US to other first world countires like Canada, Australia, Japan or Europe. By that comparison, even Canada looks bad. In Canada's case it's largely gang violence in Western Canada.

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Let thy food be thy medicine, and thy medicine be thy food.~Hippocrates
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Thanks TimD

I was just refuting Nevages point that the US has more gun crime than any other country.

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The latest data for gun deaths per 100,000 population.

Canada - 0.3
US - 3.0
Japan - 0.0 (only 11 deaths by firearm in 2008)
Australia - 0.1
New Zealand - 0.2
Germany - 0.2
France - 0.1
UK - 0.1
Norway - 0.1
Finland - 0.4

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You can make stats to say whatever you want to say.http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_per_100_peo-murders-per-100-000-people

US... Not even in the top 50.

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Thanks TimD.

Every one of the countries with higher murder rates than the US is either a third world country or has recently had a civil war(s).

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Let thy food be thy medicine, and thy medicine be thy food.~Hippocrates
Strength is the adaptation that leads to all other adaptations that you really care about - Charles Staley
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Thanks TimD

We were talking specifically about gun homicides. You'd hope that a first world democracy wouldn't come anywhere near the top 50 in the list you linked.

Incidentally the average for the EU on that list is 1.71 with the US coming in at 5.9.

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Make them stats dance Knob!

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Thanks TimD.

They dance all on their own.

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like me. In a nightclub.

I'm so lonely

Does anyone know how to find the earliest instance of a quote on the internet? I can't find any search engine that allows you to get the oldest refernce. It seems to me that this would be an important feature to journalists, lawyers and researchers, so there must be a way.

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Let thy food be thy medicine, and thy medicine be thy food.~Hippocrates
Strength is the adaptation that leads to all other adaptations that you really care about - Charles Staley
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Thanks TimD

"Probably a better comparison would be to compare the US to other first world countires like Canada, Australia, Japan or Europe. By that comparison, even Canada looks bad. In Canada's case it's largely gang violence in Western Canada." - stuward

That depends on how you look at it. Economically the US is much closer to Western Europe and Japan, but physically it's much closer to Mexico. That must have some effect considering the murder rate in Mexico is so much higher than that of the US.

If Austria had a murder rate as high as Mexico, wouldn't you expect some of that violence to spill over into neighboring countries?

"We were talking specifically about gun homicides." - Proper Knob

Isn't the total murder rate a more signifigant stat. Dead is dead after all, regardless of the murder weapon.

Also, many of the most violent countries on this list have gun laws that are far more restrictive than those of the US.