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US most armed country
Topic Started: Aug 28 2007, 12:30 PM (278 Views)
wissaboo
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U.S. most armed country with 90 guns per 100 people By Laura MacInnis
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said.

U.S. citizens own 270 million of the world's 875 million known firearms, according to the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies.

About 4.5 million of the 8 million new guns manufactured worldwide each year are purchased in the United States, it said.

"There is roughly one firearm for every seven people worldwide. Without the United States, though, this drops to about one firearm per 10 people," it said.

India had the world's second-largest civilian gun arsenal, with an estimated 46 million firearms outside law enforcement and the military, though this represented just four guns per 100 people there. China, ranked third with 40 million privately held guns, had 3 firearms per 100 people.

Germany, France, Pakistan, Mexico, Brazil and Russia were next in the ranking of country's overall civilian gun arsenals.

On a per-capita basis, Yemen had the second most heavily armed citizenry behind the United States, with 61 guns per 100 people, followed by Finland with 56, Switzerland with 46, Iraq with 39 and Serbia with 38.

France, Canada, Sweden, Austria and Germany were next, each with about 30 guns per 100 people, while many poorer countries often associated with violence ranked much lower. Nigeria, for instance, had just one gun per 100 people.

"Firearms are very unevenly distributed around the world. The image we have of certain regions such as Africa or Latin America being awash with weapons -- these images are certainly misleading," Small Arms Survey director Keith Krause said.

"Weapons ownership may be correlated with rising levels of wealth, and that means we need to think about future demand in parts of the world where economic growth is giving people larger disposable income," he told a Geneva news conference.

The report, which relied on government data, surveys and media reports to estimate the size of world arsenals, estimated there were 650 million civilian firearms worldwide, and 225 million held by law enforcement and military forces.

Five years ago, the Small Arms Survey had estimated there were a total of just 640 million firearms globally.

"Civilian holdings of weapons worldwide are much larger than we previously believed," Krause said, attributing the increase largely to better research and more data on weapon distribution networks.

Only about 12 percent of civilian weapons are thought to be registered with authorities.



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This is a surprise to you? :sad2:

Americans are the most responsible and trustworthy people on the planet, of course they are going to be trusted with more firearms than the rest of you aliens.
Everything happens for a reason, but sometimes the reason is that you're stupid and make bad decisions.
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Aug 28 2007, 04:15 PM
This is a surprise to you? :sad2:

Americans are the most responsible and trustworthy people on the planet, of course they are going to be trusted with more firearms than the rest of you aliens.

I agree to a point.
If you watch the news some nights, you'll see some people with guns and wonder aloud what the hell they're doing owning one. :wtf:
 
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Come to think of it, a lot of ppl I know have guns. One of my friends has like 4-6 weapons, including an AK-47...an old Russian rifle..can't remember what it is tho.. All we have is a shotgun.
Well in this city, we have a lot of AF & Army so.... yeah.
...And we no longer have an automatic weapons ban here. Pretty scarey when I think about it. :ermm:
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Aug 28 2007, 01:15 PM
This is a surprise to you? :sad2:

Americans are the most responsible and trustworthy people on the planet, of course they are going to be trusted with more firearms than the rest of you aliens.

:giggle:

Dork.

Seriously though. Think about it, this is a 'Cowboy' country. Nothing is ever going to change that mentality. And I'm not saying that's a good thing.
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:o When did America start having guns? :o

Ohhh..... that's right, we brought them with us when we took the place :sarcastic:
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