Gun Crime stats per country

Tea drinker · 13-09-2007 6:23pm #1

Here's a link to homicide stats per country.
The U.S., the world most tooled up nation, is surprisingly far down the list.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_gun_vio_hom_ove_hom_rat_per_100_pop-rate-per-100-000-pop

Sparks · 13-09-2007 6:45pm

Nothing to do with the Shooting forum (read the Charter next time). Moving to AH.

SteveS · 13-09-2007 7:16pm

I live not that far from the state capitol, which is a decent sized city. There is surprisingly little gun crime.

mike65 · 13-09-2007 7:36pm

Interesting. The 'Easties' do love a shoot em up it seems.

Mike.

Tea drinker · 13-09-2007 11:15pm

It's likely related to the general local crime rate.
Some areas in Ireland would have very disproportionate amount of gun crime - and of course drugs etc is mixed up in it.

mikemac · 13-09-2007 11:20pm

I'm not suprised South Africa is No.1.

For small countries Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are very high up that list.

biko · 13-09-2007 11:27pm

More guns yeay

Dev 17 · 13-09-2007 11:33pm

Gun Crime in the UK has gone up since they banned guns. Switzerland has very low gun crime rate despited high ownership of guns per capita.

marco murphy · 13-09-2007 11:44pm

Thats a cool site thanks.

I expected Lithuanian to be on top.

Mellor · 14-09-2007 12:03am

I thought Columbia would top it. Highest in most crimes.
Not surprising USA is low on the list as its per capita.
In fact there isn't that much of a surprise to it at all.

If anyone expected USA to be anywere close to under-developed countries then they should watch less movies and the news a bit more often.

Dennis the Stone · 14-09-2007 12:14am

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Dennis the Stone · 14-09-2007 12:51am

I suppose since the ceasefire they have had to think about their retirement plans

Rabies · 14-09-2007 1:40am

Hmmm. Ranked 31st for gun violence, but first for suicide in the age group 15-24

Black Swan · 14-09-2007 1:43am

Dev 17 wrote:

Gun Crime in the UK has gone up since they banned guns. Switzerland has very low gun crime rate despited high ownership of guns per capita.

Doesn't Switzerland have a "citizen army" with universal conscription where all males must train and maintain a military weapon in their household?

Manic Moran · 14-09-2007 3:49am

Yes.

We're having a lovely time up here in the San Francisco Bay Area. There have been a half dozen shootings in the last two days in Richmond alone, plus others in SF and SJ. It got so bad that the RPD put SWAT on patrol, and this morning, they had honestly thought that someone had tried to snipe a cop in a patrol car. (They still have no idea what caused the window to shatter, but they now think it wasn't a rifle)

Only problem is.. It's illegal to carry guns around in the Bay Area. Strange, that.

NTM

Gun Crime stats per country

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