Luddly Neddite
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New Trajectory: You Are More Likely To Be Shot To Death In The U.S. Than In War-Torn Somalia and Yemen
You are more likely to be murdered with a gun in the United States than to be murdered by any means in Somalia and Yemen.
Gun violence is more likely to be your cause of death here in the streets and homes of America than any form of homicide in either of these god-forsaken, war-torn, chaotic third-world countries (and Im only talking about homicides here, not including accidental shootings, suicides, law enforcement, or defensive shootings).
Lets look at the numbers, shall we? The most recent year in which I could find data for all three countries was 2004 (the last year I could find for Somalia).
In Somalia in 2004 (from a World Bank study, from THIS link), there was a civilian homicide rate of 3.30 / 100K for ALL methods.
In Yemen in 2004, there was a civilian homicide rate of 2.85 / 100K for ALL methods. (also found from the same World Bank study, from THIS link; the most recent year cited, 2008, had a rate of 4.00 / 100K).
In 2004, the United States had homicide rate of 3.97 / 100K for FIREARMS ALONE (according to CDC WISQARS data) (to compare with the most recent Yemen data, 2008 gun homicides in the U.S. also had a rate of 4.00 / 100K).
(For those interested in the rate for all forms of homicide in the U.S., in 2004 it was 5.88 / 100K, and in 2008 it was 5.86 / 100K.)
Its important to note that these shooting rates also mirror the rates of gun ownership (again, data is from www.gunpolicy.org):
Rate of private gun ownership out of 179 countries: America is 1st. Yemen is 10th. Somalia is 58th.
Private guns in America: 88.8 / 100 people
Private guns in Yemen: 54.8 / 100 people
Private guns in Somalia: 9.1 / 100 people