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sasha031

(6,700 posts) Sun Dec 16, 2012, 05:23 PM Dec 2012

excellent interactive map / The gun ownership and gun homicides murder map of the world

Which countries in the world have the highest firearms murders - and the highest rates of gun ownership? Click on a country to see how it compares - and use the dropdown menu to see the map in different ways

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2012/jul/22/gun-ownership-homicides-map?CMP=twt_gu

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excellent interactive map / The gun ownership and gun homicides murder map of the world (Original Post) sasha031 Dec 2012 OP

Doesn't seem to be much correlation creeksneakers2 Dec 2012 #1

Shh, we're not supposed to notice those things. Lionessa Dec 2012 #2

Being destabilized by death squads may have something to do with that. Heywood J Dec 2012 #3

One striking thing about this map is that the whole Western Hemisphere dgauss Dec 2012 #4

Sort this map by income disparity and I wonder what we'd see nt riderinthestorm Dec 2012 #5

Yikes Brazil and columbia. slutticus Dec 2012 #6

creeksneakers2

(7,473 posts)

1. Doesn't seem to be much correlation

Reply to sasha031 (Original post)

Sun Dec 16, 2012, 06:51 PM

Dec 2012

The US is #1 in gun ownership but only has 2.97 murders per 100,000 population. Honduras is 88th in gun ownership but has a murder rate of 68.43 per 100,000 population.

Lionessa

(3,894 posts)

2. Shh, we're not supposed to notice those things.

Reply to creeksneakers2 (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 16, 2012, 07:13 PM

Dec 2012

Also we're not supposed to point out that murders in countries with tighter gun control still have murders and bombings and suicides, just maybe not with guns.

Heywood J

(2,515 posts)

3. Being destabilized by death squads may have something to do with that.

Reply to creeksneakers2 (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 16, 2012, 08:50 PM

Dec 2012

Looking at the % view, the map doesn't have percentage data for most of the world.

dgauss

(882 posts)

4. One striking thing about this map is that the whole Western Hemisphere

Reply to sasha031 (Original post)

Sun Dec 16, 2012, 09:39 PM

Dec 2012

seems awash in gun homicide, with the exception of Canada and Cuba. Central America being the worst if you look at gun homicides per 100,000 people.

You can download a spreadsheet like table that you can sort by different categories. The US is 28th in the world in the homicides by gun per 100,000 and with very few exceptions, everyone ahead of us (worse) is south of us, from Mexico to Argentina.

riderinthestorm

(23,272 posts)

5. Sort this map by income disparity and I wonder what we'd see nt

Reply to sasha031 (Original post)

Sun Dec 16, 2012, 09:41 PM

Dec 2012

slutticus

(3,428 posts)

6. Yikes Brazil and columbia.

Reply to sasha031 (Original post)

Sun Dec 16, 2012, 09:54 PM

Dec 2012

US is #1 in civilian gun ownership, yet middle of the road for gun related homicides (although 60% are by firearms). I bet most of those are in oakland.

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