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Gun Control & RKBA

Lurks Often

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1. I'll point out that India's "intentional homicide rate" isn't much lower then the U.S.

Reply to sarisataka (Original post)

Sat Apr 29, 2017, 05:19 PM

Apr 2017

India has a murder rate of 3.2 and 41,263 murders in 2014; The U.S. had a murder rate of 3.9 and 12,253 murders in 2013. Note that these are the total number of ALL murders, regardless of the method or tool used.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate#By_country

Overall, of 218 countries, by murder rate the United States is ranked 112th & India is ranked 127th

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I'll point out that India's "intentional homicide rate" isn't much lower then the U.S. Lurks Often Apr 2017 #1

That was a good read..thanks for sharing.. virginia mountainman Apr 2017 #2