I wanted to use the information you provided but felt I needed a cite - so I found http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm for 2010 homicides and note that it gives the firearm homicide rate as 3.6 (not much difference - but a bit lower). I can't find a CDC cite for 1990, but http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/misc/atlasres.pdf gives the average annual number deaths for 1998-92 as 23,632 homicides, 15,769 by firearm. (again, about 2/3, 66.7%) This gives rates/100,000 (using a US 1990 population of 248,709,873 - from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_United_States_Census) of 9.5 and 6.3 .
It's interesting that the 2010 "All homicides" rate is 5.3 and that about 2/3 (68.1%) of the homicides were by firearms. Reading the popular media would make one think it was 90+%. --henry schaffer On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Olson, Joseph E. <jol...@hamline.edu>wrote: > According to the CDC, the 2010 overall US gun homicide rate is about 3.7 > per 100,000 [in 1990, it was about 7.5]. The rate for the largest 50 > cities is 4.3. > > Does anyone know what it is after taking out Chicago, Detroit, Washington, > DC, and New Orleans? > > After taking out the 10 largest cities? > > -- > > ************************************************************************************************************** > Professor Joseph Olson, J.D.(*Hon*. Duke), LL.M.(*Tax*. Florida) > o 651-523-2142 > Hamline University School of Law (MS-D2037) > f 651-523-2236 > St. Paul, MN 55113-1235 > c 612-865-7956 > jol...@hamliine.edu > http://law.hamline.edu/constitutional_law/joseph_olson.html > > _______________________________________________ > To post, send message to Firearmsregprof@lists.ucla.edu > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see > http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof > > Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as > private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are > posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or > wrongly) forward the messages to others. >
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