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[fuagf]

Here’s how U.S. gun violence compares with the rest of the world .. excerpt ..

The dubious distinction of having the most gun violence goes to Honduras, at 68.43 homicides by firearm per 100,000 people, even though it only has 6.2 firearms per 100 people. Other parts of South America and South Africa also rank highly, while the United States is somewhere near the mid-range. Still, America sees far more gun violence than countries in Europe, and Canada, India and Australia, which is perhaps how it gets its bloody reputation among comparatively peaceful nations.

When a person kills another in the United States, though, he or she generally uses a gun: 60 percent of U.S. homicides occur using a firearm, which is the 26th-highest rate in the world. (In other gun-permeated countries, such as Finland (45.3 guns per 100 people), only about 19 percent of homicides involve a firearm.

Guns don't always kill people, it seems, but they certainly play a role.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/12/14/schoo-shooting-how-do-u-s-gun-homicides-compare-with-the-rest-of-the-world/

Garden Rose .. there really is no debate .. you being pro gun means you are pro gun violence ..

[arizona1]

Don't want to get in an argument w/you but I'm pro gun,

This has nothing to do with being pro gun or anti gun...the study simply shows the correlation between states that have the fewest gun regulations and the most shooting deaths and states that have the most regulations and the fewest shooting deaths.