> Keith W wrote:

>>
>> Murders committed with firearms in the USA in 2004 - 11,344

>
> Child, we have a 300,000,000 strong population. You don't look at total
> numbers for information on this, you look at RATES.
>

> Rate trend, 1993 (the highpoint for many years) to 2004, downward,
> 6.6 - 3.9 (per 100,000)
> Remarkable, consider the 100s of millions of guns we have (estimate
> 200,000,000)and the UK has NOT in the hands of citizens, no?

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>> Keith W wrote:

>

>>> Murders committed with firearms in the USA in 2004 - 11,344

>> Child, we have a 300,000,000 strong population. You don't look at total
>> numbers for information on this, you look at RATES.
>>

>
> Rates per capita, you have a population 6 times ours but your
> gun related homicide rate is more than 200 times higher