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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 06 2012 @ 02:29 PM EDT |
| You forgot Britain - low legal gun ownership, low violent crime rate. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Not so fast - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 06 2012 @ 05:02 PM EDT
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| Authored by: jonathon on Friday, July 06 2012 @ 03:18 PM EDT |
>No-one has provided examples of high legal gun ownership and high violent
crime rates.
South Africa might be a candidate. OTOH, the crime rate has skyrocketed since
the current thugs took over from the previous thugs. Whether that increase in
crime is due to:
* Abolishing the death penalty;
* Removing guns, and the legal right to own a gun, from the civilian
population;
* The number of known criminals who became law enforcement officers after they
started their criminal activity;
* The number of cops who decided that a life of crime was preferable to life as
a law enforcement officer;
is debatable.
South Africa cops have always been corrupt. Ten rand in the sixties was enough
to get a cop to look the other way for pretty much any crime that did not
involve a prominent white male as a victim. That same service now costs around 5
000 Rands, except prominent black males are the "protected" class.
Anyway, here are some statistics to ponder:
12.7 guns per 100 population
(Source: Wikipedia)
Manslaughters 11 202
Murders with firearms 31 918
Gun violence > Homicides > Overall homicide rate > per 100 000 pop.
125.965
Gun violence > Homicides > Firearm homicide rate > per 100 000 pop.
74.5748
Gun violence > Homicides > % homicides with firearms 59.2028
Prisoners > Per capita 402 per 100 000 people
(Source for the above:
http://www.nationmaster.com/country/sf-south-africa/cri-crime )
For the US:
88.8 guns per 100 residents.
(Source: Wikipedia)
Murders with firearms: 9,369
Gun violence > Homicides > Firearm homicide rate > per 100 000
population: 3.6
Gun violence > Homicides > % homicides with firearms: 39.5604
Gun violence > Homicides > Overall homicide rate > per 100 000
population: 9.1
Prisoners > Per capita: 715.0 per 100 000 people
(Source: http://www.nationmaster.com/compare/South-Africa/United-States/Crime )
Doing a slightly different comparison:
* South Africa: One rape of a female by a male every 17 seconds;
* USA: One rape (all genders by all genders) every two minutes;
The big question about South African crime statistics, is whether or not they
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- So to sum up: - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 06 2012 @ 04:59 PM EDT
- So to sum up: - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 06 2012 @ 10:34 PM EDT
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