WORLD MURDER STATISTICS

[Tpoppa]

Saw this online...can't swear it's accurate, but still interesting. 

 

WORLD MURDER STATISTICS (According to the Works Health Organization)
Murders per 100,000 citizens per year.
Honduras 91.6 (WOW!!)
El Salvador 69.2
Cote d'lvoire aks Ivory Coast 56.9
Jamaica 52.2
Venezuela 45.1
Belize 41.4
US Virgin Islands 39.2
Guatemala 38.5
Saint Kitts and Nevis 38.2
Zambia 38.0
Uganda 36.3
Malawi 36.0
Lesotho 35.2
Trinidad and Tobago 35.2
Colombia 33.4
South Africa 31.8
Congo 30.8
Central African Republic 29.3
Bahamas 27.4
Puerto Rico 26.2
Saint Lucia 25.2
Dominican Republic 25.0
Tanzania 24.5
Sudan 24.2
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 22.9
Ethiopia 22.5
Guinea 22.5
Dominica 22.1
Burundi 21.7
Democratic Republic of the Congo 21.7
Panama 21.6
Brazil 21.0
Equatorial Guinea 20.7
Guinea-Bissau 20.2
Kenya 20.1
Kyrgyzstan 20.1
Cameroon 19.7
Montserrat 19.7
Greenland 19.2
Angola 19.0
Guyana 18.6
Burkina Faso 18.0
Eritrea 17.8
Namibia 17.2
Rwanda 17.1
Mexico 16.9
Chad 15.8
Ghana 15.7
Ecuador 15.2
North Korea 15.2
Benin 15.1
Sierra Leone 14.9
Mauritania 14.7
Botswana 14.5
Zimbabwe 14.3
Gabon 13.8
Nicaragua 13.6
French Guiana 13.3
Papua New Guinea 13.0
Swaziland 12.9
Bermuda 12.3
Comoros 12.2
Nigeria 12.2
Cape Verde 11.6
Grenada 11.5
Paraguay 11.5
Barbados 11.3
Togo 10.9
Gambia 10.8
Peru 10.8
Myanmar 10.2
Russia 10.2
Liberia 10.1
Costa Rica 10.0
Nauru 9.8
Bolivia 8.9
Mozambique 8.8
Kazakhstan 8.8
Senegal 8.7
Turks and Caicos Islands 8.7
Mongolia 8.7
British Virgin Islands 8.6
Cayman Islands 8.4
Seychelles 8.3
Madagascar 8.1
Indonesia 8.1
Mali 8.0
Pakistan 7.8
Moldova 7.5
Kiribati 7.3
Guadeloupe 7.0
Haiti 6.9
Timor-Leste 6.9
Anguilla 6.8
Antigua and Barbuda 6.8
Lithuania 6.6
Uruguay 5.9
Philippines 5.4
Ukraine 5.2
Estonia 5.2
Cuba 5.0
Belarus 4.9
Thailand 4.8
Suriname 4.6
Laos 4.6
Georgia 4.3
Martinique 4.2
And ............................................
The United States 4.2 
ALL (109) of the countries above the US of A have 100% gun bans.
It might be of interest to note that SWITZERLAND is not shown on this list because it has:
NO MURDER OCCURRENCE!
However, SWITZERLAND'S law requires that EVERY ADULT MALE:
1. Be issued a gun.
2. Be trained in its use.
3. Maintain Marksman qualifications.... regularly.

Edited May 22, 2014 by Tpoppa

[Casper]

I'd love to know if this is legit or not. I don't have time to research it right now though.

[Tonik]

The anti's will be here any minute limiting the subset to 'developed' countries. They can blow me.

[PhilD'oh!]

I hope somebody actually does research the validity of this list (I'm way too lazy). I've been to many of these places, several towards the top if the list and never got killed...as far as I know.

[bloodninja420]

Greenland being that high up on the list is kind of a shock. I wonder if their data point was just captured in a high variance year.

Notice the racial make - up of the rest of the list. That's the bigger story than any gun control.

I suspect if you took the murder rate of US blacks it would fall in the range of any of those 3rd world shit holes.

These are the kind of observations that don't get me invited back to a lot of cocktail parties...

[Steve Butters]

Without looking it up, I call bs on this list. Some countries on the list murder people and don't consider it murder (specifically looking at the middle eastern countries that follow sharia and such)

[Steve Butters]

Also, Switzerland at 0...no way. People don't need guns to kill people.

Here's the gun death numbers for Switzerland... Too lazy to look up total homicide rate, but obviously it'll be higher

www.businessinsider.com/switzerlands-gun-laws-are-a-red-herring-2012-12

I'm all for less gun control and I believe it helps with violence... But I'm not ignorant enough to believe that having a firearm will prevent anything bad from happening

Edited May 22, 2014 by Steve Butters

[C-bus]

US Virgin Islands surprises me. Bahamas.... Not-so-much....

Edited May 23, 2014 by C-bus

[redkow97]

Yeah, "murder" is a legal conclusion that requires that a person intends death as the result.

Not including manslaughter stats would certainly reduce the USA number.

"Firearms fatalities" would be more relevant. Although most of those stats include police shootings and self defense situations, even when justified.

Edited May 23, 2014 by redkow97

[Tonik]

No, firearms fatalities would be far less relevant. The anti's claim guns kill people. If true the above statics seem to say people kill people even in the absence of guns. Our at the very least gun laws don't do jack.

[magley64]

How about 2/3 of homicides are committed with guns in the us...

Wonder why firearms are the weapon of choice for homicide...

[Tpoppa]

How about 2/3 of homicides are committed with guns in the us...

Wonder why firearms are the weapon of choice for homicide...

 

 

No, firearms fatalities would be far less relevant. The anti's claim guns kill people. If true the above statics seem to say people kill people even in the absence of guns. Our at the very least gun laws don't do jack.

 

I recall some saying about guns being outlawed...and outlaws carrying guns.

[Tonik]

I work at a school. I'm very safe, guns are banned AND the Federal Government has banned plastic knives in the lunch room. I'm good to go. Oh, and they banned salt too. 's

[Tonik]

How about 2/3 of homicides are committed with guns in the us...

Wonder why firearms are the weapon of choice for homicide...

 

And yet despite being one of the most heavily armed countries in the world our intentional murder rate is looking pretty good.

[Tpoppa]

Doesn't this disprove much the the gun control lobby's claims?  Specifically, availability of guns = crime.

 

Switzerland issues every adult a gun and trains them how to use it: Switzerland has lowest gun-related crime rate in the civilized world. 

http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/switzerland.asp

 

Much of the gun control talk is driven by fear of the unknown.  Many people just fear what they don't understand...it's human nature.  Everyone is trained on firearms in Switzerland, so the fear goes away.   According to the statistics so does most of the crime.

 

I really like the idea of mandatory training.

[Tonik]

 

I really like the idea of mandatory training.

 

Yep, even though many of us may not need it...I had my first gun before I had pubic hair....it can't hurt to get a refresher just like taking the MSF from time to time can help. And I know I am going to get creamed for this, but I am in favor of mandatory background checks. However I believe the cost for that should be on the entire tax base, not just the gun owners.