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Fri Jul 20, 2012, 04:08 PM

32. Intentional homicide rate in the US is four or five times that of Europe

1.23 per 100k in the UK, 0.81 per 100K in Germany. The easy availability of firearms surely plays some part in the significantly higher murder rates. There is a mass shooting incident, it seems, anywhere from once a week to once a month in the US. There may be one or two a DECADE in Europe.

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69 replies	Author	Time	Post
Tweet of the day (Guns) [View all]	sellitman	Jul 2012	OP
We're #1! We're #1!	JNelson6563	Jul 2012	#1
USA! WE'RE NUMBER ONE!	Scuba	Jul 2012	#2
K&R	99Forever	Jul 2012	#3
Fuck the NRA	flamingdem	Jul 2012	#4
This message was self-deleted by its author	bupkus	Jul 2012	#9
Gee, that's weird	permatex	Jul 2012	#12
Who says only the U.S. government gets to say?	Hissyspit	Jul 2012	#13
He says it is a terrorist org.	permatex	Jul 2012	#14
I don't know.	Hissyspit	Jul 2012	#21
Well... I'd wonder how this stacks up in the homeland security department.	calimary	Jul 2012	#27
Excellent post.	thucythucy	Jul 2012	#48
Your arguing from emotion, not from fact	permatex	Jul 2012	#53
That doesn't mean we'll give up trying, permatex.	calimary	Jul 2012	#57
Only if you go back to the quill and ink used in that time.	permatex	Jul 2012	#58
This message was self-deleted by its author	bupkus	Jul 2012	#39
Just countering you false statements.	permatex	Jul 2012	#41
Neither have I. But I do have an opinion on the matter.	Ikonoklast	Jul 2012	#15
God save us from the day stating simple fact is "sticking up for the Right Wing"	Bucky	Jul 2012	#20
This message was self-deleted by its author	bupkus	Jul 2012	#40
Why does it sound like a freeper forum there?	permatex	Jul 2012	#43
This post was hidden by jury decision.	bupkus	Jul 2012	#44
That's it? That's all you got?	permatex	Jul 2012	#45
Just as I thought	permatex	Jul 2012	#50
I am surprised it is that high in Germany	tandot	Jul 2012	#5
Perhaps some of that number were American armed services people.	A Simple Game	Jul 2012	#7
Germany has 80 plus million people	thucythucy	Jul 2012	#49
I live in Germany	DFW	Jul 2012	#63
That is interesting. I didn't know that.	tandot	Jul 2012	#68
They went too far, too fast	DFW	Jul 2012	#69
How very, very sad.	polmaven	Jul 2012	#6
Gun love is akin to another fundamentalist religion in this country.	Chorophyll	Jul 2012	#8
I agree	sellitman	Jul 2012	#46
American Exceptionalism	ErikJ	Jul 2012	#10
God damn.	Bertha Venation	Jul 2012	#11
Keep up the good work!!	ramikin	Jul 2012	#16
9,484 gun deaths in the US = "Good Work" to you?	Ruby the Liberal	Jul 2012	#18
In the past 20 years it's dropped by half.	krispos42	Jul 2012	#25
Wow, look at that big drop in the 90's...	Scootaloo	Jul 2012	#26
Roe vs. Wade	krispos42	Jul 2012	#28
The argument that women have been aborting violent criminals for the last 40 years	undeterred	Jul 2012	#51
Which is far more plausable than saying the Assault Weapons Ban did anything	krispos42	Jul 2012	#61
I'm trying to figure out if you're yanking my chain	Scootaloo	Jul 2012	#56
Low unemployment rate?	Gidney N Cloyd	Jul 2012	#54
I don't think you can link the lapse of the assault weapons ban to the drop in gun deaths.	Bucky	Jul 2012	#22
I dunno... I see some pretty good evidence that it is happening	quakerboy	Jul 2012	#37
...	Bucky	Jul 2012	#38
Mathematical proof that we are drowning in Star Trek phasers?	chknltl	Jul 2012	#55
Maybe we're just better shots than all those other countries.	tclambert	Jul 2012	#17
Too many guns in the hands of too many idiots	magic59	Jul 2012	#19
The stupid, it burns.	krispos42	Jul 2012	#23
Try murdering 12 people and injuring 59 with a knife. Just sayin'. nt	laundry_queen	Jul 2012	#30
A movie theater and an icepick.	krispos42	Jul 2012	#31
You're just being silly now	MattBaggins	Jul 2012	#34
I am being serious.	krispos42	Jul 2012	#35
This message was self-deleted by its author	bupkus	Jul 2012	#42
That scenario would assume one person per row	Ruby the Liberal	Jul 2012	#52
I'm saying it could be done.	krispos42	Jul 2012	#64
Intentional homicide rate in the US is four or five times that of Europe	Spider Jerusalem	Jul 2012	#32
Still, our non-gun homicide rate is as high or higher than their total homicide rate	krispos42	Jul 2012	#33
Yes...a rope, the weapon of choice of most mass murderers....	sellitman	Jul 2012	#47
A logical leap that I never made.	krispos42	Jul 2012	#62
The NRA is so saturated with Fear Freak Overcompensators	Berlum	Jul 2012	#24
total scardey cats	Lex	Jul 2012	#59
This makes sense because there are absolutely no other differences	4th law of robotics	Jul 2012	#29
No one claimed there was no difference. nt	Lex	Jul 2012	#60
By making a direct comparison and blaming precisely 1 variable	4th law of robotics	Jul 2012	#65
So your theory is everyone thinks all those countries are precisely	Lex	Jul 2012	#66
I believe people will conveniently ignore those differences	4th law of robotics	Jul 2012	#67
Checking the numbers	quakerboy	Jul 2012	#36

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