Muscatine

i'm surprised no one called him on the philly police chief 'expert opinion' story. obviously chosen got it wrong, because i believe the chief would know what he was talking about.

from us dept of justice and center for disease control: 2004

ttl firearm death 29569
(there are around 65000 injuries, so that 95000).

unintentional
(accidental) 649
suicide 16750
homicide 11624
legal intervention 311
undetermined intent 235

a 1993 figure i saw showed brazil, mexico, estonia, and northern ireland having higher firearm homicides/100000 population than the usa.

I found this interesting



when I was doing my research. Again, for those of you with questionable reading abilities, I did not write this. I don't even know if I agree with it. I just found it interesting.

The New York Times has an interesting graphic on the deaths in Iraq in January. According to their report there were 800 total civilian and military deaths in Iraq in January. If my math is correct, with Iraq's population of 26 million, that would be an annualized death rate of 36.9 deaths per 100,000.
I was curious how that compared to similar statistics in the United States for firearm deaths. Although the national firearm death rate is much lower, I was surprised to find that in Washington, D.C. the firearm death rate is 31.2 deaths per 100,000.
Is it possible that the firearm death rate in Washington D.C. is that close to the ''firearm'' death rate in the war in Iraq? If these numbers are correct, it seems we either have a very serious problem in D.C, a manageable problem in Iraq, or some combination. What am I missing?

:-)

Peace

Actual rankings



#1 South Africa: 0.719782 per 1,000 people
#2 Colombia: 0.509801 per 1,000 people
#3 Thailand: 0.312093 per 1,000 people
#4 Zimbabwe: 0.0491736 per 1,000 people
#5 Mexico: 0.0337938 per 1,000 people
#6 Belarus: 0.0321359 per 1,000 people
#7 Costa Rica: 0.0313745 per 1,000 people
#8 United States: 0.0279271 per 1,000 people
#9 Uruguay: 0.0245902 per 1,000 people
#10 Lithuania: 0.0230748 per 1,000 people
#11 Slovakia: 0.021543 per 1,000 people
#12 Czech Republic: 0.0207988 per 1,000 people
#13 Estonia: 0.0157539 per 1,000 people
#14 Latvia: 0.0131004 per 1,000 people
#15 Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: 0.0127139 per 1,000 people
#16 Bulgaria: 0.00845638 per 1,000 people
#17 Portugal: 0.00795003 per 1,000 people
#18 Slovenia: 0.00596718 per 1,000 people
#19 Switzerland: 0.00534117 per 1,000 people
#20 Canada: 0.00502972 per 1,000 people
#21 Germany: 0.00465844 per 1,000 people
#22 Moldova: 0.00448934 per 1,000 people
#23 Hungary: 0.00439692 per 1,000 people
#24 Poland: 0.0043052 per 1,000 people
#25 Ukraine: 0.00368109 per 1,000 people
#26 Ireland: 0.00298805 per 1,000 people
#27 Australia: 0.00293678 per 1,000 people
#28 Denmark: 0.00257732 per 1,000 people
#29 Spain: 0.0024045 per 1,000 people
#30 Azerbaijan: 0.00227503 per 1,000 people
#31 New Zealand: 0.00173482 per 1,000 people
#32 United Kingdom: 0.00102579 per 1,000 people


:-)

Peace

missing?

most of your argument. w/out looking it up i thought i remember 100+ iraq deaths/day. so that is 3000/mo.

a suggestion for you though. do you 'google'. i would not find the nytimes unless i asked for it. google: 'gun deaths', 'iraq casualties', or whatever.

my number that i thought was interesting was the less than 1000/year accidental deaths by firearms - not that much in the scheme of things. forget about your concern for dc, homicides, or suicides - just thinning the way over- bloated heard.