Gun violence statistics

Gun Violence, by the numbers:

Number of people killed by guns in 2006 in England & Wales (population 53 million): 46

Number of people killed by guns in 2006 in New York City (population 8 million):  590

Number of people killed by guns in the United States in 2004: 29,569 

Percentage breakdown by US gun deaths in 2004, by type:

• 16,750 suicides (56% of all U.S. gun deaths)
• 11,624 homicides (40%)
• 649 unintentional shootings, 311 from legal intervention and 235 from undetermined intent (4%).

In 1998 (the most recent year for which this data has been compiled), handguns murdered:

• 373 people in Germany
• 151 people in Canada
• 57 people in Australia
• 19 people in Japan
• 54 people in England and Wales, and
• 11,789 people in the United States (suicides not included)

Sources:  CDC National Center for Health Statistics mortality report online, 2007; Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence; The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence

Comments

[Juan]

"In 1998 (the most recent year for which this data has been compiled), handguns murdered:"

Really? Good thing I own one of the non-murdering type of handguns. These guns are running wild in the streets!

Here's a more valid study: http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf

& a comment from ABC News:
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=3083618&page=1

[RS]

I'm not sure how you can have a MORE valid study when the above statistics are not a study, they are collated mortality statistics.

And out of interest, if your gun is a non-murdering one, exactly what is its purpose?

Oh right. Self defence. Like everyone else's.

You have no idea how relaxing it can be to live in a country where you aren't scared enough to need a gun.

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