United States: Homicide by guns per 100,000 people - 3.2

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United States: Homicide by guns per 100,000 people - 3.2

For comparison - South Africa is 17, Puerto Rico is 18.

3.2 per 100,000 people.... is just not that high. Is it?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/nation/gun-homicides-ownership/table/

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

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United States: Homicide by guns per 100,000 people - 3.2

For comparison - South Africa is 17, Puerto Rico is 18.

3.2 per 100,000 people.... is just not that high. Is it?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/nation/gun-homicides-ownership/table/

Buy more guns and ammo! We can do better!

[Karee 4,190]

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United States: Homicide by guns per 100,000 people - 3.2

For comparison - South Africa is 17, Puerto Rico is 18.

3.2 per 100,000 people.... is just not that high. Is it?

http://www.washingto...wnership/table/

So if you want to use your firearm for self-defense, looks like Puerto RIco is a good place to put it to use.

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So if you want to use your firearm for self-defense, looks like Puerto RIco is a good place to put it to use.

Imagine what PR statehood would do to our numbers! Maybe we'll hit 5 from the current 3.2

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

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United States: Homicide by guns per 100,000 people - 3.2

For comparison - South Africa is 17, Puerto Rico is 18.

3.2 per 100,000 people.... is just not that high. Is it?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/nation/gun-homicides-ownership/table/

Odd perspective you have there. Other industrialized countries - what I would hope we'd consider our peers - have rates of less than 1. Most are significantly below 1. We're happy doing better than South Africa? How about the Congo? Are we better than the Congo? Holding up against Somalia? Sudan? Looking good against Sudan? None of these comparison gives me the warm and fuzzy.

[slim 1,530]

what I would hope we'd consider our peers

The US has no peers.

'Merica.

[scotinmass 588]

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United States: Homicide by guns per 100,000 people - 3.2

For comparison - South Africa is 17, Puerto Rico is 18.

3.2 per 100,000 people.... is just not that high. Is it?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/nation/gun-homicides-ownership/table/

Scotland - 0.04

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

The US has no peers.

'Merica.

That's true. There's no nation as wealthy and idioticly backwards at the same time.