*U.S. vs. The World*
*"Last year, handguns killed 48 people in Japan, 8 in Great Britain, 34
in Switzerland, 52 in Canada, 58 in Israel, 21 in Sweden, 42 in West
Germany and 10,728 in the United States."* (Half True
<http://www.politifact.com/rhode-island/statements/2012/dec/23/facebook-posts/facebook-posting-handgun-deaths-has-out-date-numbe/>)
The numbers are wildly out of date. They also omit important context,
such as population size. But the odds of being murdered by a gun in the
United States is far in excess of the risk in the listed countries.
More quick google research so take it for what it is worth, but this
site says the odds are much greater in the USA than in Canada.
RB who knows lots of people that he would not want to see carrying a gun
On 09/09/2014 7:02 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote:
More people die of:
Heart disease (by almost a factor of 20)
and
Medical Mistakes.
Statistically speaking your chance of dying in gun violence is astonishingly
small.
-Curt
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