5/22/2023 Gun Show
In reading about gunshot wounds, I came across some interesting information.
From the wikipedia article on gunshot wounds: Firearms, globally in 2016, resulted in 251,000 deaths up from 209,000 in 1990.[5] Of these deaths 161,000 (64%) were the result of assault, 67,500 (27%) were the result of suicide, and 23,000 were accidents.
The article then lists 8 countries whose firearm induced deaths make up about half of the global total. The united states, is surprisingly not first but second behind brazil, although I suppose it's possible the countries are not listed in any particular order. I'm pretty sure they're excluding intergovernmental wars here and talking only about interpersonal shootings.
Then it says this: In the United States in 2015, about half of the 44,000 people who died by suicide did so with a gun.
Did you catch that? In 2015, 44,000 people died by suicide in the US alone, and 22,000 of them used a gun.
So let's just assume that the global number of suicides by gun between 2015 and 2016 were pretty similar. Those 22,000 in the US alone represent approximately 32.6% of the global suicides by gun. That's just by guns. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the romans lead the world in suicide rate. Another interesting tidbit I came across in my research is that Switzerland surprised me with their 27.6 to 41.2 guns per 100 inhabitants. Comparatively, the romans obviously blow everyone else out of the water with 120 guns per 100 inhabitants. After that, the next highest numbers from a good handful of countries all hover around 30 guns per 100 inhabitants, so behind the us switzerland is right there at the top. I guess after a neutral government, a neutral populace doesn't necessarily follow, although I hear switzerland is planning to de-neutralize themselves. Anyway, Singapore and Japan were the most gunless countries on the list with .5 and .6 guns per 100 inhabitants respectively. Even Italy, original home of one of the world's most widespread gangster networks lands at a surprisingly low 11.9 guns per 100 inhabitants, right along with Columbia which you'd think with their reputation for drugs and cartels would be higher than their 10.10 guns per 100 inhabitants, but there it is. Little landlocked, coo-coo clock switzerland outguns colombia and italy combined. The list did not look at every country worldwide, and the information ranged from being gathered in 2009 to 2019, so it's not quite an apples to apples comparison but still interesting nonetheless. Comments are closed.
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