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<blockquote data-quote="MAKAVELI" data-source="post: 1951192" data-attributes="member: 43825"><p><a href="http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/aug/27/nicholas-kristof/more-americans-killed-guns-1968-all-wars-says-colu/" target="_blank">http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/aug/27/nicholas-kristof/more-americans-killed-guns-1968-all-wars-says-colu/</a></p><p>One of them was: "More Americans have died from guns in the United States since 1968 than on battlefields of all the wars in American history."</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34996604" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34996604</a></p><p>The statistics</p><p></p><p>US gun crime in 2015</p><p></p><p>Figures up to 3 December</p><p></p><p>353</p><p></p><p>Mass shootings</p><p></p><p>62 shootings at schools</p><p></p><p>12,223 people killed in gun incidents</p><p></p><p>24,722 people injured in gun incidents</p><p></p><p>Source: Shooting tracker, Gun Violence Archive</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.humanosphere.org/science/2015/10/visualizing-gun-deaths-comparing-u-s-rest-world/" target="_blank">http://www.humanosphere.org/science/2015/10/visualizing-gun-deaths-comparing-u-s-rest-world/</a></p><p>In a 2013 article for The Atlantic online that compared gun deaths in U.S. cities to some of the deadliest places in the world, the authors created a map, below, that shows Atlanta has the same gun murder rate as South Africa, Detroit as El Salvador, Phoenix equal to Mexico’s gun homicide rate:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The Atlantic</p><p></p><p>Another screen grab, below, compares gun homicide rates in the U.S. with countries that frequently make headlines for conflict-related violence (Afghanistan, Iraq, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Pakistan).</p><p></p><p>The U.S. has higher rates of homicides from guns than Pakistan. At 4.5 deaths per 100,000 people, the U.S. rates aren’t much lower than gun homicide rates in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (5.2 deaths per 100,000 people). Annually, the U.S. has about two fewer gun homicide deaths per 100,000 people than Iraq, which has 6.5 deaths per 100,000.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MAKAVELI, post: 1951192, member: 43825"] [URL]http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/aug/27/nicholas-kristof/more-americans-killed-guns-1968-all-wars-says-colu/[/URL] One of them was: "More Americans have died from guns in the United States since 1968 than on battlefields of all the wars in American history." [URL]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34996604[/URL] The statistics US gun crime in 2015 Figures up to 3 December 353 Mass shootings 62 shootings at schools 12,223 people killed in gun incidents 24,722 people injured in gun incidents Source: Shooting tracker, Gun Violence Archive [URL]http://www.humanosphere.org/science/2015/10/visualizing-gun-deaths-comparing-u-s-rest-world/[/URL] In a 2013 article for The Atlantic online that compared gun deaths in U.S. cities to some of the deadliest places in the world, the authors created a map, below, that shows Atlanta has the same gun murder rate as South Africa, Detroit as El Salvador, Phoenix equal to Mexico’s gun homicide rate: The Atlantic Another screen grab, below, compares gun homicide rates in the U.S. with countries that frequently make headlines for conflict-related violence (Afghanistan, Iraq, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Pakistan). The U.S. has higher rates of homicides from guns than Pakistan. At 4.5 deaths per 100,000 people, the U.S. rates aren’t much lower than gun homicide rates in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (5.2 deaths per 100,000 people). Annually, the U.S. has about two fewer gun homicide deaths per 100,000 people than Iraq, which has 6.5 deaths per 100,000. [/QUOTE]
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