mai said:
Much higher is x1.5 higher as per last report with trend being down and you're being up, though even that undecisisve given how it's reported over here (including unsuccessful attempts at murder, dead body with undecesive cause of death = one homocide unless proven otherewise etc., hence the skewed data complain from UN expert). It certainly was way higher decade ago, but given the turmoil of the 90s it certainly went down by a huge margin, so I'm surprised how low the rate as of now. Why? The social causes of course. I though I've addressed that in my posts, that there're a lot of other reasons for rates be high or low. And restricts is overestimation, 10% have guns. Hell, I'm a gun owner :D though not an avid one, had it enough in the army. As I said there're arguments to support contradictory opinions, Sweden and Uruguay -- comparable gun ownership (and it's high), but the latter is way higher in homicide rate, Japan and Malaysia -- comparable gun ownership (very low), the latter is way higher in homicide rates etc. //Still trying to attack me geographically, aren't you? ;) |
What about Switzerland? 3rd highest gun ownership in the world (after USA and Yemen I believe) but very low in gun homocide. 1 gun homocide per 200,000 people according to a quick Wiki search. Obviously not as low as Great Britain, France, etc. but considering they have 8x more guns per capita than Britain it kinda defeats the guns = crime argument.
