Originally posted by Roy
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US firearm homicide rate: ~3 per 100,000 people per year
EU firearm homicide rate: ~0.1 per 100,000 people per year
Or, in graphic form:
Homicide rates in the U.S. and peer countries by weapon type, 2013
That graph usefully shows just how unusual the US is compared to the rest of the Western world.
Note to casual readers: To get the combined figures across the EU, you average all those EU countries, you don't add them. So combining all those EU countries together doesn't add up to the US numbers, it averages at overall homicide rates less than a fifth of what the US has and gun homicide rates about one twentieth of what the US has.
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