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Nearly half the guns in the entire world are possessed by Americans. #endgunviolence readingwritingandreagan.word…
How do murder rates in other countries compare with the U.S.?readingwritingandreagan.word…
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It's time to envision a country with far fewer guns
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The more guns the more murders.
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It's time to begin envisioning a United States with far fewer guns.
#end gun violence
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- Nbakki.hatenablog.com “Murder rate in major cities of Japan 2011.” Jan. 2014
- En.m.wikipedia.org “Estimated number of guns per capita by country.” Small arms survey 2017.
- En.m.wikipedia.org “Estimated number of guns per capita by country.” Small arms survey 2017.
- Euronews.com “How does Europe compare with the United States on Gun Ownership?” August 2019
- Dutchnews.nl “There was one murder a month in Amsterdam last year” Sept. 2021.
- ChicagoTribune.com “Chicago reached at least 800 homicides in 2021, a level not seen in 25 years.” Jan. 2022
- Homicides.news.BaltimoreSun.… “Baltimore City Homicides 2022.”
That astronomic number would evoke an international crisis. The city would be considered a near war-zone. Conversely, if Chicago had Tokyo's murder rate, they would have just 28 homicides. In Baltimore, there would be six.
Please imagine that.
Tokyo is a huge city, close to 9 million people. In 2011, there were 91 murders.6 Their gun ownership rate is 0.3 guns per 100 residents.7 If Tokyo was plagued with Baltimore's murder rate, there would have been 5142 homicides.
There are nearly 400 million guns in the United States. This country has 4.4% of the world's population but owns 46% of its guns.5 The murder rates strongly suggest our nearly religious obsession with firearms is dangerously unhealthy.
are not: guns are far more readily available in the United States. Gun ownership per 100 residents in the Netherlands is 3.6; in the United States, it is 120.5 per 100 residents.4
The violence in American cities is staggering. Only developing countries suffer worse rates, while other highly developed nations with strong democratic ideals enjoy significantly lower statistics. There is a simple, obvious reason Amsterdam is safe and cities in the U.S.
For one year.
Coming from the United States, this number sounds miraculous.
Often, Chicago has that many murders in a week. Last year, they had 836 homicides.2
Baltimore, a dwindling city of 585,000, has averaged 25 - 28 murders a month for the last seven years.3
With a precipitous drop in its murder rate over the last six years, the residents of Amsterdam have reason to celebrate, be thankful - and feel uncommonly safe. The nominal capitol of the Netherlands, with a population of 1.16 million, saw its homicide rate drop from 25 to 12.1
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