Re: The fundamental right to keep and bear arms is a vital tool safeguarding individual liberty. Archived Message
Posted by Wally Bunker on August 11, 2019, 8:06 pm, in reply to "Re: The fundamental right to keep and bear arms is a vital tool safeguarding individual liberty."
Honduras (60.00 deaths per 100,000 people) Venezuela (49.22 deaths per 100,000 people) El Salvador (45.6 deaths per 100,000 people) Swaziland (37.16 deaths per 100,000 people) Guatemala (34.10 deaths per 100,000 people) Jamaica (30.72 deaths per 100,000 people) Brazil (21.9 deaths per 100,000 people) Colombia (18.65 deaths per 100,000 people) Panama (15.11 deaths per 100,000 people) United States (12.21 deaths per 100,000 people) Uruguay (11.52 deaths per 100,000 people) Montenegro (8.91 deaths per 100,000 people) Philippines (8.90 deaths per 100,000 people) South Africa (8.3 deaths per 100,000 people) Paraguay (7.76 deaths per 100,000 people) Mexico (7.64 deaths per 100,000 people) Argentina (6.93 deaths per 100,000 people) Barbados (6.6 deaths per 100,000 people) Costa Rica (6.3 deaths per 100,000 people) Peru (5.53 deaths per 100,000 people) In terms of specific mass shootings, according to the Gun Violence Archive, the United States has had over 255 mass shootings in 2019 as of August 2019. There were 340 mass shootings in 2018 in the United States, which is a 26% increase from 2014, which had 269 mass shootings. Contrary to popular belief, comparing countries by mass shooting is actually more difficult that one would think. Other countries have other definitions of what qualifies as a mass shooting, and they have different organizations and entities keeping track of the number of mass shootings each year, so this makes it difficult to compare mass shooting rates between different countries. However, there have still been some researchers that try to compile this information. There is a common misconception that the United States is one of the top few countries, if not the top country, that have the highest mass shooting rates. In 2015, the United States was actually number sixty-six on the list of countries in terms of mass shooting rates according to a study done by the Crime Prevention Research Center. In this study, looking at the United States alongside all the countries in Europe alone, the United States has the 12th highest mass shooting rate. A few of the European countries with a higher mass shooting rate than the United States include Russia, Norway, France, Switzerland and Finland. More recent studies about mass shootings by country are still being conducted. In recent years, the Crime Prevention Research Center looked at the death rates that resulted from mass shootings between the years 2009 and 2015. Here are the average death rates, in millions, per country, between 2009 and 2015. The countries are already listed in order of the highest death rates to the lowest median death rates. We were number 66 in 2015 in mass shootings. WE ARE REALLY LAGGING BEHIND.
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- The fundamental right to keep and bear arms is a vital tool safeguarding individual liberty. - Bluangel August 5, 2019, 12:44 am
- Re: The fundamental right to keep and bear arms is a vital tool safeguarding individual liberty. - Wally Bunker August 5, 2019, 1:44 am
- Re: The fundamental right to keep and bear arms is a vital tool safeguarding individual liberty. - Wally Bunker August 6, 2019, 12:28 am
- political response to unarmed Americans being killed to is disarm all Americans? - Riverbender August 6, 2019, 9:04 am
- Re: The fundamental right to keep and bear arms is a vital tool safeguarding individual liberty. - Wally Bunker August 9, 2019, 10:25 am
- Every US Mass Shooter in 2019 Who Shot Four or More People - Riverbender August 9, 2019, 11:36 am
- Barrage of bullets fired in Granite City - Riverbender August 9, 2019, 11:42 am
- Re: The fundamental right to keep and bear arms is a vital tool safeguarding individual liberty. - 3Dee August 11, 2019, 9:00 am
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