If it's not one thing, it's another...

[Papewaio]

Gun Crime & Firearms Controls

In some areas, gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress.

Most worrying is the rise in the number of young people carrying real or imitation firearms, either to boost their image, or from a misguided idea about self-protection. Some of this is linked to gang activity, which itself is linked to the illegal drug trade.

Contrary to public perception, the overall level of gun crime in this country is relatively low – less than half of 1 percent of all crime recorded by the police – and in the year ending 31 March 2004, there was:

a 15 per cent reduction in homicides involving firearms
a 13 per cent reduction in robberies involving firearms

Even so, we have seen an unacceptable rise in gun crime over recent years, and are doing everything we can to tackle it.

[Papewaio]

Map & Graph: Mortality: Rifle, shotgun and larger firearm discharge (per capita) (Top 50 Countries)
View this stat: Totals Show map full screen

Country Description

Definition: Total for all ages and sexes. Database compiled January 2004. Total of figures for:
Rifle, shotgun and larger firearm discharge
Rifle, shotgun and larger firearm discharge, home
Rifle, shotgun and larger firearm discharge, residential inst Per capita figures expressed per 1000000 population.


Amount
1. Panama 1.35 deaths per 1 million people
2. Slovenia 1.03 deaths per 1 million people
3. Venezuela 1.01 deaths per 1 million people
4. Georgia 1.01 deaths per 1 million people
5. Slovakia 0.92 deaths per 1 million people
6. Estonia 0.70 deaths per 1 million people
7. Kyrgyzstan 0.61 deaths per 1 million people
8. Lithuania 0.55 deaths per 1 million people
9. Dominican Republic 0.45 deaths per 1 million people
10. United States 0.45 deaths per 1 million people

28. Israel 0.16 deaths per 1 million people

41. Canada 0.03 deaths per 1 million people

[Papewaio]

Map & Graph: Mortality: Assault by handgun discharge (per capita) (Top 50 Countries)
View this stat: Totals Show map full screen

Country Description

Definition: Total for all ages and sexes. Database compiled January 2004. Total of figures for:
Assault by handgun discharge
Assault by handgun discharge, home
Assault by handgun discharge, residential institution
Assault by handgun discharge, sch Per capita figures expressed per 1000000 population.


Amount
1. Dominican Republic 16.63 deaths per 1 million people
2. Colombia 12.43 deaths per 1 million people
3. Belize 11.25 deaths per 1 million people
4. Brazil 9.35 deaths per 1 million people
5. Luxembourg 6.60 deaths per 1 million people
6. Estonia 4.96 deaths per 1 million people
7. Venezuela 4.09 deaths per 1 million people
8. United States 3.67 deaths per 1 million people
9. Panama 3.03 deaths per 1 million people
10. Georgia 2.83 deaths per 1 million people

25. Norway 0.43 deaths per 1 million people

46. South Africa 0.02 deaths per 1 million people

[Proletariat]

These are next.

Gun control at least will mean that people won't make their own... but banning pointy metal things? Gee Mr. Professor! It's so hard to make sharp pointy stabbing instruments! Somewhere a village is missing its idiot.

[Papewaio]

[IMG]
Gun control at least will mean that people won't make their own... but banning pointy metal things? Gee Mr. Professor! It's so hard to make sharp pointy stabbing instruments! Somewhere a village is missing its idiot.

When looking at methods of mass murder I defer to Nazi Germany.

So I think we had better ban pesticides and ovens and...

How many mass killings in schools in the US have you seen by scissor weilding kids lately?

Howabout samurai sword weilding ninjas wiping out a dozen of their class mates in a hate driven rage?

NiKA Student "Oh my gawd it is the Star Wars kid beating the creationist teacher over the head with a pole. Oh Gawd he just rapid fired his collection of authentic episode 1 scissor shurkens into the astrology teachers class and wiped out all the pig gut reading students."

Or is the solution to give all children firearms?

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

A gun ban has nothing to do with a rise in gun related crimes ?

It doesn't neccessarily have to have something to do with it. You never know, if guns hadn't been banned gun crime might have risen far more than it actually has...although I doubt that, as the handgun ban had little/no effect on the average citizen.