Gun homicide rate by country

[Revmitchell]

The majority of gun deaths is suicide. That pretty much changes the entire perspective.

 

[Lewis]

It's simpler than that. If you are on, or near, Martin Luther King Boulevard...get out of dodge.

A valid viewpoint.

 

[InTheLight]

The majority of gun deaths is suicide. That pretty much changes the entire perspective.

Sure, if you think HOMICIDE and SUICIDE are synonymous.

 

[Don]

In the two different lists provided on Page 2, the US didn't make the top 25, or the top 10.

CTB, care to comment?

 

[Alcott]

Sure, if you think HOMICIDE and SUICIDE are synonymous.

They are synonymous. Suicide is a subset of homicide. Or else fornication and adultery are not synonymous.

 

[Martin Marprelate]

Hmmm- Crabby tells us that the USA has a high murder rate by firearm.

Lets take a look at the murder rate by all means.

Here is a list of the top 25 countries - where in the top 25 do you think is the USA?

Just to say that this list is the murder rate, not the murder by firearm rate.
I'm not sure if that matters. Dead is dead whether you're shot stabbed or bludgeoned.

 

[Rippon]

The majority of gun deaths is suicide.

Can you please document that? It sounds rather hard to believe.

 

[Revmitchell]

Can you please document that? It sounds rather hard to believe.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/05/24/suicides-account-for-most-gun-deaths/

 

[matt wade]

Can you please document that? It sounds rather hard to believe.

http://www.vocativ.com/usa/guns/suicides-outnumber-homicides-comes-gun-violence/

 

[Rippon]

Wow, from both links I am very surprised. I thought that the homicide rate would be much higher than the suicide rate. With all the killings we hear about in D.C., Detroit and Baltimore I just naturally assumed...

 

[Salty]

Earth to Crabby, Earth to Crabby

Waiting on a response from you


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[wpe3bql]

I don't know why the UK gun homicide rate for the U.K. isn't shown on the list.
I read recently that our annual number of gun murders is about the same as your daily rate. The U.S. population is about 5 times that of the U.K.

Before anyone asks, I cannot vouch for the accuracy of these figures. I read them in a newspaper. If they are correct, then Britain has a lower rate than any country on the list, which is possible since it is very hard to get a gun over here.

Bro. Martin,

Here's a link that may provide you with some information about the murder rate in the UK:

www.citizensreportsuk.org/reports/murders-fatal-violence-uk.html

The information this link presents is supposedly from the UK's Home Office. The reporting period is from the 2013-2014 time frame.

As you suggested, since getting a gun is a bit more difficult in the UK than it is in the US, this report states that "The most common method of killing continues to be by sharp instrument.

"Female victims were more likely to be killed by someone they knew.

"In most of these cases, female victims were killed by a current male or female co-partner, while male victims were most likely to be killed by a friend or acquaintance.

"Victims aged under 16 years were most likely to be killed by a parent or step-parent."