DB: "Another stupid shooting in the US" I agree DB, but they will continue whilst a good majority of the US population fail to grasp the original intent of the 2nd Amendment to their Constitution which is encapsulated in the first four words from it :
"A well regulated Militia,................."
Most civilians with guns worry me.
I have summarised below what I have read regarding gun homicides from similar type countries circa 2012, for meaningful comparison the 2nd set of figures is for overall homicides also per 100,000
GUN RATE OVERALL RATE
UK had a rate per 100,000 of 0.07 or 41. 1.00 = 653 dead
Australia had a rate per 100,000 of 0.13 or 30. 1.10 = 254 dead
Canada had a rate per 100,000 of 0.50 or 173. 1.60 = 543 dead
USA had a rate per 100,000 of 3.00 or 9146 4.7 = 14,827 dead
Those figures are sobering enough in themselves, but even more disturbing is the fact that women are far more likely to be victims of gun homicides as a result of "domestics" e.g.
Washington, DC — More than 1,700 women were murdered by men in the United States in 2012, and more than 90 percent were killed by someone they knew,
Nationwide, for homicides in which the circumstances could be identified, 85 percent of the homicides were not related to the commission of another felony. Most often, females were killed by males in the course of an argument between the victim and the offender.
Firearms — especially handguns — were the weapons most commonly used by males to murder females in 2012.
Women suffering from domestic violence are eight times more likely to be killed if there are firearms in the home.
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