Posted on 05/08/2005 1:31:10 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim
Venezuela, Brazil world leaders in gun deaths-UN
06 May 2005 03:29:58 GMT
Source: Reuters
BRASILIA, Brazil, May 5 (Reuters) - Venezuela and Brazil have the highest gun death rates in the world, according to a U.N. study released on Thursday in Brazil as the country's legislators considered a referendum to ban firearm sales.
Gun murders are the leading cause of death in Brazil, which ranked second only to Venezuela in gun murders out of 57 countries studied by the United Nations report.
In Venezuela, 22.15 people out of every 100,000 are murdered with guns, while 21.72 are killed in Brazil.
Those rates were higher than for Israel, which has an armed conflict with the Palestinians. At the bottom of the ranking was Japan with a rate of 0.06 people, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) study.
Brazil's Congress is considering a national referendum this year to ask whether the sale of arms should be prohibited in a country said to have the world's highest number of murders.
Brazil imposed tough controls in 2003 that made it illegal for ordinary citizens to own guns and set tough prison sentences for people found carrying them illegally.
Latin America's biggest nation is still awash with as many as 20 million unregistered and illegal firearms.
Guns overtook traffic accidents as the leading cause of death in Brazil in the 1990s. Between 35,000 and 40,000 Brazilians are killed each year by firearms.
But the leftwing morons said the US was the most dangerous wild west OK corral guns of navarrone shooting homicidal country in the world! /sarcasm
Too bad Chavez hasn't been added to that statistic.
Funny, both are leftwing nations. And both nations banned guns. What's going on here? According to the left, they should be living in peace and harmony now! My world view has been destroyed! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! [/sarcasm]
Brazil imposed tough controls in 2003 that made it illegal for ordinary citizens to own guns and set tough prison sentences for people found carrying them illegally.
No wonder why they have so many shootings
How did the US fare? I imagine that if we had bad statistics, they'd be in the headlines. It would be interesting to see where the US ranks among the so-called civilized nations.
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