Ahh the Politifact report. You left out the murder rate though and your odds of being murdered which is 1 in 24,000 in the US and 1 in 56,000 in Canada which is still way the hell behind Spain at 1 in 111,000 which surprises me.
You chance of being killed with a gun (and again its a big country) is 1 in 200,000 compared to the US' 1 in 31,000, now think of Israel where everybody thinks everybody is being killed all the time and your chance of dying in gun violence is 1 in 1,000,000 and now maybe you realize the regionalization that gets left out when talking about all gun statistics. -Curt ________________________________ From: Randy Bennell <[email protected]> To: Curt Raymond <[email protected]>; Mercedes Discussion List <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 11:38 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] N 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 (Half True) The numbers are wildly out of date.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 ________________________________ _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
