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U.S. GUN FETISH
The recent anonymous Sound Offs regarding how unusual the gun death at the Cabin was are misleading.
The United States has the largest percentage of gun-owning households. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime 39% of households owned at least one gun, compared to 32% for Norway, 29.1% in Canada, and 1.9% for Netherlands in the early 1990s.
Further, death rates per 100,000 persons in 1997 was high for this country, 14.05, only outgunned by Brazil, 26.97, and Jamaica at 18.72. The breakdown for our total was homicide: 11.54, suicide: 7.23, and accidental death: 0.58. The UN report provides specifics in terms of validity of responses from 23 nations.
The Wadsworth Cengage Learning center quotes similar numbers and specifies caution in using the numbers as exact values. The National Rifle Association, for example provided numbers per 100,000 persons for 1998 as assault: 12,228, suicide: 17,605, and accident: 875 for a total of 30,708. The center quotes similar values for 1998 provided by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence including a category for cases where intent was unknown (316 instances).
The center is very clear that taken out of context the numbers can be used to prove anything by restricting the data in a biased fashion.
Another source, the Small Arms Survey, Geneva, highlights the United States in 2004 had the worst gun death rate per 100,000 persons with 9.42. Switzerland came in second at 6.20, followed by France (4.89), Finland (4.43) and Belgium (3.68).
There are hundreds of other sources on the internet, all leading to the same basic conclusion: even if there is a ten percent error in some of the quoted statistics, the United States has more firearms in private hands and more deaths as a consequence.
None of the values stated include military deaths.
The tragic case at the Cabin is not isolated.
The United States has the largest percentage of gun-owning households. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime 39% of households owned at least one gun, compared to 32% for Norway, 29.1% in Canada, and 1.9% for Netherlands in the early 1990s.
Further, death rates per 100,000 persons in 1997 was high for this country, 14.05, only outgunned by Brazil, 26.97, and Jamaica at 18.72. The breakdown for our total was homicide: 11.54, suicide: 7.23, and accidental death: 0.58. The UN report provides specifics in terms of validity of responses from 23 nations.
The Wadsworth Cengage Learning center quotes similar numbers and specifies caution in using the numbers as exact values. The National Rifle Association, for example provided numbers per 100,000 persons for 1998 as assault: 12,228, suicide: 17,605, and accident: 875 for a total of 30,708. The center quotes similar values for 1998 provided by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence including a category for cases where intent was unknown (316 instances).
The center is very clear that taken out of context the numbers can be used to prove anything by restricting the data in a biased fashion.
Another source, the Small Arms Survey, Geneva, highlights the United States in 2004 had the worst gun death rate per 100,000 persons with 9.42. Switzerland came in second at 6.20, followed by France (4.89), Finland (4.43) and Belgium (3.68).
There are hundreds of other sources on the internet, all leading to the same basic conclusion: even if there is a ten percent error in some of the quoted statistics, the United States has more firearms in private hands and more deaths as a consequence.
None of the values stated include military deaths.
The tragic case at the Cabin is not isolated.
posted by Ed Fisher at
4:15 PM
2 Comments:
Sounds about right.
In order to establish a one world government, private ownership of small arms must be abolished and make no mistake, the UN is out to do just that. If it sounds like you've heard it before, could be, the NAZI's adopted the same policy and the gunlaws being passed in this country ARE taken from NAZI doctrine. Like the nazi's, you will be assigned to a labor camp unless your health condition prevents that, which you would be killed. Blow your anti-gun propaganda out your hind end....we aint buying it.
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