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Guns in America - Essay

Guns in America

In Japan, the murder rate is almost 1 per 100,000. In the U.S., there are about 3.2 murders per 100,000 people each year by weapons other than firearms. This means that even if firearms in the U.S. could be eliminated, we would still have three times the murder rate of the Japanese. Japan’s murder rate may be low, but its suicide rate is over 20 per 100,000 people. Japanese are being murdered and committing suicide at a rate of about 21 per 100,000. In the U.S., our combined murder and suicide rate is about 21 also.


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According to the Census Bureau of 2010 there were 2,403,351 total deaths in America, 28,663 of those deaths were firearm related (Gang warfare, self ...

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Added: 3/11/2011 04:08:05 PM
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