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U.S. most armed country with 90 guns per 100 people
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Posted on 08/28/2007 10:55:28 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

U.S. most armed country with 90 guns per 100 people

By Laura MacInnis 28 minutes ago

The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said.

U.S. citizens own 270 million of the world's 875 million known firearms, according to the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies.

About 4.5 million of the 8 million new guns manufactured worldwide each year are purchased in the United States, it said.

"There is roughly one firearm for every seven people worldwide. Without the United States, though, this drops to about one firearm per 10 people," it said.

India had the world's second-largest civilian gun arsenal, with an estimated 46 million firearms outside law enforcement and the military, though this represented just four guns per 100 people there. China, ranked third with 40 million privately held guns, had 3 firearms per 100 people.

Germany, France, Pakistan, Mexico, Brazil and Russia were next in the ranking of country's overall civilian gun arsenals.

On a per-capita basis, Yemen had the second most heavily armed citizenry behind the United States, with 61 guns per 100 people, followed by Finland with 56, Switzerland with 46, Iraq with 39 and Serbia with 38.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; demographics; freedom; guncontrol
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the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies.....left wing think tank.
1 posted on 08/28/2007 10:55:30 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

90 per 100 is surely a good start.


2 posted on 08/28/2007 10:56:41 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Tracking The Flyin' Imams Since 11/20/06)
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To: Sub-Driver

With all these libs around?..........Somebody must be gettin more than their share!...........


3 posted on 08/28/2007 10:56:57 AM PDT by Red Badger (ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!)
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To: Sub-Driver

The 2nd Amendment is alive and well.


4 posted on 08/28/2007 10:58:14 AM PDT by counterpunch ("The Democrats are the party of slavery." - Cindy Sheehan)
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To: Red Badger

sadly the libs can speak out and attack us knowing they are perfectly protected by those that they oppose.


5 posted on 08/28/2007 10:58:35 AM PDT by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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To: Sub-Driver
Come on people we need 100 guns for every 100 people. We all need to go out and buy, buy, buy until we can achieve 100 out of 100!
6 posted on 08/28/2007 10:58:42 AM PDT by 2001convSVT ("People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence")
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To: Sub-Driver

USA, Finland and Switzerland .... that’s pretty good company to have.


7 posted on 08/28/2007 10:58:55 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (“Jesus Saves. Moses Delivers. Cthulu Reposesses...”)
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To: Sub-Driver
I feel so inadequate in the fact I only have my .45 Springfield now.
8 posted on 08/28/2007 10:59:21 AM PDT by Sybeck1 (I like Rodney Carrington's recipe for World Peace.)
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To: Sub-Driver
We need to make it 100% Bump! An armed society is a polite - and a free society.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

9 posted on 08/28/2007 10:59:27 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Sub-Driver
The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens

Wrong! All citizens are armed, the rest are subjects.

10 posted on 08/28/2007 10:59:50 AM PDT by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: edcoil
sadly the libs can speak out and attack us knowing they are perfectly protected by those that they oppose.

That's some crazy irony, there.

11 posted on 08/28/2007 11:00:06 AM PDT by babyfreep (http://www.gohunter08.com)
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To: Sub-Driver

How do we arm the other 10?


12 posted on 08/28/2007 11:00:09 AM PDT by Domandred (Eagles soar, but unfortunately weasels never get sucked into jet engines)
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To: Sub-Driver

How many countries actually have the right to bear arms in their constitutions?


14 posted on 08/28/2007 11:00:36 AM PDT by SmithL (I don't do Barf Alerts, you're old enough to read and decide for yourself)
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To: Red Badger
Somebody must be gettin more than their share!...........

hehehehe ;)

15 posted on 08/28/2007 11:00:40 AM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: goldstategop

We need to raise that past “replacement rate” - so everyone should have at least 2.2.


16 posted on 08/28/2007 11:00:41 AM PDT by IslandJeff (Joel 2 = 2007)
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To: Sub-Driver; All

I freely admit that I am guilty of being in the statistic that allows for such a high number of non gun-owning libs to be counted in the 90 out of 100.

I buy a new gun whenever I feel the need, which is often.

Like Sen. Graham said, “I have more shotguns than I need, but fewer shotguns than I want.”


17 posted on 08/28/2007 11:00:45 AM PDT by shag377 (De gustibus non disputandum est)
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To: Sub-Driver
Only ninety guns per one hundred people? My household, with five for two, is carrying a couple of others....
18 posted on 08/28/2007 11:01:03 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Domandred

We don’t - they should be used to reload mags instead.


19 posted on 08/28/2007 11:01:08 AM PDT by flashbunny (<--- Free Anti-Rino graphics! See Rudy the Rino get exposed as a liberal with his own words!)
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To: Centurion2000

Yeah but guns cause crime, and we know how bad crime is among the indigenous populations of Switzerland and Finland ;-)


20 posted on 08/28/2007 11:01:21 AM PDT by Brakeman (Self delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly - Ronald Reagan)
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