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Guess which country has the most gun deaths, it's not the US

posted 10 years ago by up_down84
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The country which has the most gun deaths is Brazil which has an average of 38,000 gun deaths a year. The US has 31,000 gun deaths a year. Brazil also has strict gun laws and despite that it has a very high murder rate and it has a very high gun murder rate and guns are used in 91 percent of the murders in Brazil. In the slums of Brazil there are kids with machine guns rocket launchers hand grenades and all other kinds of weapons.

The US is much safer and much less violent then Brazil and the US has a much lower murder rate then Brazil and the US has a much lower gun murder rate then Brazil and this is despite the fact that the US has more relaxed gun laws.

http://www.latitudenews.com/story/what-the-u-s-obama-can-learn-from-brazils-epidemic-of-gun-violence-newtown/

http://www.gunfacts.info/gun-control-myths/guns-in-other-countries/

http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/brazil

http://www.tfp.org/tfp-home/news-commentary/what-about-gun-violence-in-brazil.html

[–] storm_mica 9 years ago

so do 2 (or more) wrongs make a right then? Wake up to yourself...

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[–] RKharlamov2001 9 years ago

Are you proving some sort of point?

[–] CharlesVariations 9 years ago

Brazil is a developing country, they were talking about countries in the first world/developed world such as European countries, Australia, and Canada. Amongst those countries America has overwhelmingly the largest amount of gun deaths. that's what they were pointing out.

I'm not for gun control because I just don't think it will work, but that doesn't mean I don't believe America has a weird obsession with guns and an immature gun culture.

Only people with money say that money doesn't matter.

[–] misbegotten 9 years ago

The US has 31,000 gun deaths a year.

Why aren't the Americans using this information to promote tourism in their country? There are advertising slogans just crying out to be used;

Come to America - there were only 31,000 gun deaths last year!!!

And also;

America. Slightly safer than most war-zones.

http://hexfan.proboards.com/

[–] jeff_mcjefferson 9 years ago

Brazil has an extremely high homicide rate. It's not really a place you want to be drawing comparisons with. It may have strict guns laws but it is rife with corruption so they are ineffective. Facts are among developed countries, the USA has both a very high homicide rate and a very high rate of death caused by firearms.

Get on the scale son! Get off the scale.

[–] sonoftom 8 years ago

He touches on a lot more than just gun control in this documentary, my guess is you didn't actually watch this in its entirety. Or you where only half into it when you did picking up on your own little bits to satisfy your own assumptions.

I am the son of a man named Tom.

[–] imdbuser83492834 8 years ago

America should be very proud then.

So what you are saying is this - because Brazil has more gun deaths, there isn't a problem in America with gun deaths.

Got ya.

I'm outta here to lobby the Australian government to relax gun laws and allow me to carry around a semi-automatic weapon because there is no problem with me doing so as long as we don't exceed the gun deaths of Brazil.

Thanks for the insight, hopefully our parliament listens to this rational reasoning.

Can you please also post your phone number, I'll give you a call when I have converted our country to your logical arguments - keep the phone on you, I'll be calling right about the time hell freezes over ;)

[–] thecalhouns 8 years ago

Stop and think about the fact that the only thing that separates America, "leader of the free" from Brazil, a country with the "favelas", which are considered some of the worst, most lawless ghettos in the world, is 7000 murders.

That's pretty bad if you ask me.

[–] Dagio_32 8 years ago

I agree that would be bad, but thankfully that's not the case. Everyone seems to be confusing gun deaths with gun murders. Of the roughly 30,000 gun deaths per year in the US, 2 out of 3 are suicides. That doesn't make it any less tragic, but the fact is that in the US, a gun is the most common method of suicide. Japan, even with strict gun control, has a higher suicide rate than the US. It's just that in Japan, most suicides are by hanging, not by gun.

So while I agree the gun murder rate is a huge problem, the comparison with Brazil is not even close.

[–] Tongue (496) 2 years ago

Well I urge everyone to take a closer look at where most of these shootings take place in America. It’s not rural areas . Certain demographics are pretty eager to use their gun