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Old 02-27-2003   #26
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Oh, KC, I went to look, from the same page you used:

United States: Total homicide 5.70 by gun 3.72
Japan: Total homicide 0.62 by gun 0.02 (!)

You are 18600% more likely to get murdered with a gun in the US than you are in Japan.

You are 9 times more likely to get murdered in the US then in Japan.

Idaho murder rate (http://www.korpios.org/resurgent/L-guncontrol.htm) was 2.9 - so you are still almost 5 times more likely to get murdered in Idaho than in Japan.

Gee, which country is safer?

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