[quote]Originally posted by Vaskez:
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Originally posted by MagiK:
[qb]Sounds like a load of bollocks to me. Look at the figures for number of gun related deaths in a year in the USA and the number in England. USA has roughly 4.5 times the population but something like 300 times the no. of gun-related deaths. Hmmmm!
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Vasky, you better look up your stats again [img]smile.gif[/img] A while ago I posted statistics from the US CDC on the number and cause of deaths.
The Presses and publicly touted number of gun deaths are almost always exagerated by a factor of 10 (literally! press says 30,000 actual number was 3 - 4 thousand.). bathtubs and water kill far more americans than guns do, and the per capita firearm related death is only vastly higher than the UK's if you include gun suicide deaths in the statistic.
If I have time Ill post the CDC link again...the CDC is going to be the closest thing you can find in the USA to an unbiased source of numbers. They are primarily disease oriented but ended up with the task of tracking the cause of death in the US from all sources and causes.