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*Introduction, world map, and links. *Chart. Many nations. Latest rates. Descending order. *Chart. Many nations. Latest rates. Alphabetical order. *USA timeline chart. *National Rifle Association, handguns, and high U.S. homicide rate. *The drug war and NRA's mandatory minimum sentencing campaigns! *Quotes. *More references and more links. *Violence. Links and info. *Drug War charts, and more. |
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Introduction, world map, and links. [TopLink] |
Wikipedia lists both current and historical
homicide
rates worldwide. Please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homicide_rate
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Homicide_rates - Charts,
graphs, maps.
Murder rate per year per
100,000 inhabitants. 
See: Global Burden of Armed Violence Report. Geneva
Declaration on Armed Violence and Development. and Wikipedia:
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homicide_rate
Western and Central Europe homicide rate = 1.5 per 100,000 people.
USA is 6.1 per 100,000 people.
Canada is 1.85 per 100,000.
Handguns only increase the murder rate. Canada and much of Western
Europe effectively ban handguns for the most part.
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Chart. Homicide rates. Many nations. Latest rates. [TopLink] |
Homicide rates per 100,000 inhabitants according to the most
recent rates at the time this chart was copied from Wikipedia (May
4, 2009).
Murder rate per year per
100,000 inhabitants.
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Alphabetical order. [TopLink] |
Murder rate per year per
100,000 inhabitants.
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Homicide rates. USA timeline. Chart. [TopLink] |
| 1900 to 2002 timeline. United States homicide rates per 100,000 population. |
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| This
Bureau of
Justice Statistics (BJS) chart is copied from the above bold link. BJS documents are in the public domain. See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-USGov-DOJ The BJS chart is based on statistics from the NCHS (National Center for Health Statistics, Vital Statistics). It has slightly different homicide rates than those from the FBI. The FBI rate is usually about .5 less. The wk1 file above also has the number of violent crimes in the USA every year since 1960. Use Excel or another spreadsheet program to open the wk1 file. |
National Rifle Association, handguns, and high U.S. homicide rate. [TopLink] |
Canada has
far fewer handguns per capita than the USA:
"As we see it, a ban on ordinary Canadians continuing to own handguns
is eminently reasonable and ought to be supported by most of us, even
in the
face of statistics indicating there could be as many as one
million
of
the weapons now in Canada. After all, that
statistic can be
seen as showing
that 30 million Canadians don’t see a need for such easily concealed
firearms.
If nothing else, the ban would stand as a statement made by a peaceable
society.
Unlike the much-maligned federal gun registry, such a ban need not
involve any
costly administration. And, as we understand it, handguns could still
be owned
by collectors and others so long as they are rendered permanently
inoperable."
~ Orangeville Citizen. Orangeville, Ontario, Canada. January 5, 2006. Emphasis
added.
http://www.citizen.on.ca/news/2006/0105/Editorial/016.html
http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Number=1195031
There is no problem with rifles and shotguns being legal.
They
are not
used in murders nearly as much as easily concealed handguns. The
motive
for most murders in the USA and in some other nations is arguments:
http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/cfi/cfi110.html
and
http://www.google.com/search?q=statistical+abstract+united+states+homicide+motives
Chart below is from:
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/graphs/12.htm
When a whole nation bans handguns, over time the lack of handguns
greatly lowers
the
homicide rate. Just because criminals have handguns doesn't translate
into a
high homicide rate. Most homicides are committed out of conflict or
momentary rage
between
non-criminals. The murder rate is much lower in Europe due to the fact
that
handguns
have been effectively banned for so long in most of Europe. Fear of
murder is
not nearly as big in Europe as in the USA.
In Europe and Canada most people don't want to go to the trouble
required to get an
illegal
handgun. They can much more easily buy a rifle or shotgun to protect
their home,
and teargas to put in their pocket to lower their fear while outside
their
homes.
In the USA killing someone with a handgun is too easy compared with
anything
else. This is because killing someone with almost anything
other
than a gun will likely be very messy, with a lot of blood. Some
blood is
bound to get on you or your clothes. How do you make your getaway? How
do you bring your weapon to begin with? It is not easy to conceal a
rifle or shotgun. So that leaves those messy knives and clubs. Or in
the USA, a handgun. It is too easy to kill and get away with it.
The drug war and NRA's mandatory minimum sentencing campaigns. [TopLink] |
| See this list of incarceration rates by country. Compare the rates. Due to the Drug War the USA has the highest incarceration rate in the world. See: The U.S. Drug War. Republicans lead. Democrats follow. Everybody pays. The Republican-dominated NRA is greatly responsible. See: National Rifle Association and mandatory minimum sentencing. See cost of U.S. drug war: 1.5 trillion dollars! |
Quotes. [TopLink] |
"The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing
they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell
him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom.
That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or
labourer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy.
It is our job to see that it stays there."
George Orwell. January 8, 1941 article for the Evening
Standard.
http://www.orwelltoday.com/readerriflequote.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell
Rifles and muskets were the main weapons, and what average people
could afford,
at the
time
of these quotes around the time of the Amercan Revolution:
"Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of
Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the
governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." ~ James
Madison
"Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at
large, than to have them properly armed and equipped." ~ Alexander
Hamilton
"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they
are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America
cannot
enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of people are
armed,
and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can
be, on
any pretense, raised in the United States." ~ Noah Webster
"No free men shall be debarred the use of arms." ~ Thomas
Jefferson
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people
always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to
use
them." ~ Richard Henry Lee
"The great object is that every man be armed. . . . Everyone who is
able
may have a gun. . . . Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and
debasing
degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense?" ~
Patrick
Henry
"Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over
the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate
governments . . . forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition.
. . .
[The] several kingdoms of Europe . . . are afraid to trust the people
with
arms." ~ James Madison
"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them,
may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which might be
occasionally
raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury
of their
fellow-citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their
right to
keep and bear their private arms." ~ Tench Coxe
Tench Coxe, noted federalist and friend of James
Madison, wrote
in
defense of the proposed Constitution, in the Pennsylvania Gazette of
Feb. 20,
1788: "Their swords, and every other terrible instrument of the
soldier,
are the birth right of an American. ... The unlimited power of the
sword is not
in the hands of either the federal or the state governments, but, where
I trust
in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people."
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