Paranoia Strikes Back

Just want to give you some facts if I may.

Here goes.  Homicide rates based on GUN OWNERSHIP per 100,000 population.

#1.  Honduras.  (68.43 homicides per 100K population)  Est. 500,000 gun owners.

#2.  El Salvador.  (39.9 homicides per 100K population)  Est. 400,000 gun owners.

#3.  Jamaica.  (39.4 homicides per 100K population)  Est. 215,000 gun owners.

#4.  Venezuela.  (38.97 homicides per 100K population )   Est. 2,850,000 gun owners

#5.  Guatemala.   (34.81 homicides per 100K population)  Est. 1,650,000 gun owners.

.

.

#28.  United States.  (2.97 homicides per 100K population)  Est. 270,000,000 gun owners.

Note:  The United States clearly ranks #1 in gun ownership based on total population world wide, but ranks 28th (of reporting countries that is) of homicides per 100K population at 2.97

Note:  Jamaica has a 39.4 rate per 100K, yet owns only an estimated 215,000 guns in their country.  Form your own opinions of why.

Note:  Please note the high number of homicides per 100K of the top 5 countries, and then note the number of estimated guns owned in those countries.  Again, form your own opinions of why.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jul/22/gun-homicides-ownership-world-list

Thanks for reading.

--
Slider44