Remove Black murders and Hispanic murders from the U.S. rate, and the non-Hispanic White (European anticedents) murder rate drops to 1.5/100,000.
European Murder Rates Compared to the United States: Demographics vs Guns
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/01/european-murder-rates-compared-to.html
I don’t believe the FBI or whoever keeps such records makes a distinction between homicide and justified homicide.
If you’d remove New York City, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Wash.DC, and Los Angelos from North America
as well as Mexico, we’d probably be similar to western Europe.
DOCUMENTATION: Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide? A Review of International and Some Domestic Evidence by Don B. Kates and Gary Mauser, Volume 30, Number 2 of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, pages 649-694.
QUOTE FROM ARTICLE: “If you are surprised by our findings, so are we. We did not begin this research with any intent to “exonerate” handguns, but there it is — a negative finding, to be sure, but a negative finding is nevertheless a positive contribution. It directs us where not to aim public health resources.”
INDIRECTION: The trick hoplophobes always use is to say that America has higher gun-murder rates than other countries, but many of those “murders” are criminals killed in the act of committing violent crimes or criminal gang members killing each other. Compare absolute murder rates, and the result is “more guns, less murder.” (Source: GunFacts.info);
SECOND INCONVENIENT FACT: According to DOJ crime statistics, guns are used by US citizens 2.5 million times per year to prevent violent crimes like rape, robbery, home-invasion and carjacking, 99% of the time without a shot being fired. (Source: GunFacts.info)
THIRD INCONVENIENT FACT: “Assault weapons” (AKA semiautomatic rifles) are used in less than 1% of gun crimes. (Source: GunFacts.info)
QUESTION: If gun-free zones make people safe, then why don’t we declare the immediate vicinity of the President and Vice-President to be gun-free zones and send the Secret Service home? Or are gun-free zones good enough for our kids, but not good enough for our overlords? It is the height of arrogance and hypocrisy for politicians to surround themselves with armed guards while insisting that our children be soft targets.
METAPHOR: America has more private gun ownership than most other countries, so naturally there are more gun murders. America also has more hospitals than most other countries, so naturally we have more people dying in hospitals. Does that mean we should outlaw hospitals?
FINAL INCONVENIENT FACT: Since 1900, governments have murdered 262 million of their own citizens, and strict gun control was always the first step.
FINAL DOCUMENTATION:
Of Holocausts and Gun Control, Washington University Law Quarterly, Volume 75, Number 3, Fall 1997 (pp. 1237-1275)
The numbers for central America are skewed because Mexico has a Civil War going on that no one reports as a civil war. Similarly, in some regions of Africe.
There was a very interesting articles years ago which was titled something like “When is a murder not a murder?” Answer: when it is manslaughter. All the definitions have to be the same for the statistics to count.
Bttt.
I have never seen a compilation of world homicide statistics based not just on nationality, but entirely by ethnic race. Not as easy as all that, because internationalists are profoundly opposed to such classifications on philosophical grounds.
But say you took the big four human races: White/Caucasian, Mongoloid/Asian, Negroid/Black, and Australoid. While there should be an “other” group as well as a “mixed” group, these are rejected as well by most governments and statisticians. Perhaps the very nebulous “Hispanic” should be included.
In any event, it would be very interesting to see what ethnic race dominates the world in both homicide and victimization.
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