Gun death statistics

[samfloor]

UK... 0.05 homicides by firearm per 100,000 for the five years up until 2011.

USA...3.55

Canada....0.51

Australia...0.11

And the winner is Japan...0.00

But it could be much worse....Honduras....64.8
( in Honduras there are only 6 guns per 100,000 people)

UK 1997 Firearms Amendment Acts.
Homicide rates
1997 1.24/100,000
1998 1.43/100,000
1999 1.45/100,000
2000 1.71/100,000
2001 1.79/100,000
2002 2.1/100,000 (Note Harold Shipman's X victims he was prosecuted for included here)
2003 1.75/100,000
2004 1.6/100,000
So homicide rates increased only there were fewer gun homicides.

[samfloor]

The fact is, if you divided the US into two countries, a black one and a white one.
The white homicide rate would be 2.1/100,000
African Americans experience a homicide rate of 16.0/100,000.
What is the demographic breakdown of homicides in the US? over 50% of all homicide victims are African Americans, they represent 13.6% of the US population. Do you know any European, Oceanian, Asian country with such a demographic outlier? Is it fair to do a comparison between countries where one has such a significant demographic difference?
There are over 1,000 more murders committed every year by African Americans in the US, than by whites, even though they comprise only 13.6% of the population. 80% of those murders are committed by males under the age of 30.
I don't have a solution. I hope there is one.

[samfloor]

Oh, and homicide rates in the US have been dropping since the 1980s.

[Musicinabottle]

I used to believe that if everyone was armed, that gun violence would go away. I no longer believe that however.