Death by gun, not as bad as you might think
According to 2009 data collected by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the U.S. sees 3.3 homicides by firearm for every 100,000 citizens.
By comparison, Canada's rate is 0.5 homicides and the U.K. is 0.1. Most European countries sit somewhere in the same range.
China and Russia are not in the UNODC roundup, and there are many countries in Central and South America, the Caribbean and parts of Africa that have much higher rates than the U.S.
Mexico, for example, has three times the U.S. rate for gun homicides according to UNODC data.
In Colombia and Venezuela, the rates per 100,000 are 27 and 38.9 respectively.
In South Africa, it is 17.03 gun homicide deaths per 100,000 people.
The above was exerted from this article from last year.
Last edited by onehundred80; Apr 3, 2014 at 02:48 PM.