Gun Death Comparisons by Country

[Mike M (the other one)]

(12-08-2015, 03:02 PM)PhilHos Wrote: So, of those people that killed themselves via gun, without access to a gun ALL of them would not commit suicide? :snark:

Ha, apparently not. Based on Suicides only, we are relatively low on that chart.

(12-08-2015, 03:14 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: My understanding of the statistic is that it is assault by firearm. This is based on looking at the database the data was pulled from and that being the most likely category used. They separate out self-harm.

yes, self harm is separated from it (Intentionally, I would think) because if you add in Suicides, Belgium's numbers triple ours and we are much closer to many of those European and Asian countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_death_rate

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm

Even something so simple as taking the word "Firearms" out of murders and we are well below the world average.

http://chartsbin.com/view/1454

So yes, we obviously have more gun related deaths than most other countries out there, especially ones that have banned guns, but they make up for it in other areas, ones that we do much better than them at.

Now if we used the same criteria as other countries do (number of arrests, not number of incidents) then our number would drop in half, down to 2.26 per 100k.

http://crimeresearch.org/2014/03/comparing-murder-rates-across-countries/