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Originally posted by JSDSKI
From Boston U. School of Public Health: people killed with handguns in 1996
30 in Great Britain
106 in Canada
211 in Germany
15 in Japan
9,390 in the US
Centers for Disease Control study shows that American children are nearly 12 times more likely to die from a gun injury than children in 25 other industrialized countries combined. They are 11 times more likely to use a gun to commit suicide and 9 times more likely to die from an unintentional shooting.
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Scot,
Any chance you can dig up the numbers for later years, or at least Great Britain and the US for comparison?
As you may be aware, the UK is experiencing a dramatic rise in crime since their gun ban went into effect in 1997. London's crime rate is now greater than New York's for example.
Australia would be another good one to compare crime rates pre and post gun ban. They are enjoying the same "benefits" as the UK I've heard.
I would be being disenengenuous if I thought my examples proved anything but it's less of a stretch than the "correlation equals causation" argument you are implying by comparing handgun deaths in one culture vs another.
-Chris