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Originally posted by Colin
You're misinformed.
Homicide Rates (2000)
1 South Africa 50.14
2 Russia 21.40
3 Lithuania 10.00
4 Estonia 9.94
5 Latvia 6.22
6 USA 5.64
7 Spain 2.94
8 Finland 2.86
The US homicide rate is about twice that of the 8th country.
Here are some "similar" countries.
Canada 1.76
UK 1.61
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homicides total/100k firearm/100k
US 5.7 3.7
UK 1.4 0.11 (england/wales)
fireearm rate ~36x higher..
Once you take the guns out of the statistics the homicide rates look a lot more similar
non-firearm homicides rates/100k
United States 1.98
Finland 2.38
Portugal 1.70
Israel 1.60
Italy 0.59
Scotland 2.05
Canada 1.40
Australia 1.42
Singapore 1.64
South Korea 1.58
New Zealand 1.30
As I said before. Moore's point was that GUN homicides in the US are much higher than the rest of the world.