8 to 10,000 renders even clicking on either of those links meaningless to be honest mate
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Jahled Three shades of black, Tue 18 Dec 2012, 22:09,
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The 8 to 10,000 is just comparing two countries, though.
Why is comparing more countries than two meaningless?
If gun ownership was the primary cause then more data would prove that correlation.
However, is it not interesting that a country such as El Salvador can have less guns than us but the highest level of gun crime?
As with most things, there are going to be many causes. Some more than others. The whole "it is entirely about gun ownership" seems overly basic*.
I suspect that America's homicide rate not including guns would also be higher than ours.
* Though I do think it is a cause, just not the only or main one
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monkeon schmonkeon, Tue 18 Dec 2012, 22:17,
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The majority of US gun deaths are suicides.
And maybe there are less in the UK because it is a smaller population; maybe it is something cultural. Brazil has tighter gun laws, but higher gun-related deaths.
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BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Tue 18 Dec 2012, 22:20,
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I can only agree with with you in that if someone wants to top themselves seriously fucking me off by jumping in front of the underground might just do it
But I am grateful to live in a society where people don't have hand guns in their top draw by their bed, or an AK-47 locked in a cabinet, mental issues or not. Best i've got is a baseball behind my bed, and a very sharp Katana I would love never to use because actually killing another person tends to have repercussions your brain might not handle in the long term, and stuff like regretting the deed for the rest of your life.
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Jahled Three shades of black, Tue 18 Dec 2012, 22:43,
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Do you not think we should
ban Katana ownership?
Our homicide rates are very stab-happy:
www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/Homicide/Globa_study_on_homicide_2011_web.pdf
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monkeon schmonkeon, Tue 18 Dec 2012, 22:49,
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