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    Around 400,000 folk are murdered each year worldwide!

    Now that's a stat to start the weekend off with. Just goes to prove what a screwed up planet we live on.

    Some more.......

    • You're more likely to be murdered if aged between 15 and 49 (In 2017 approx. 75% of those murdered belonged in this age range.)


    • El Salvador tops the list for most gun related murders per 100,000 people in 2017, followed closely by Venezuela. There's a sizeable gap to Guatemala in third. Honduras was 4th, Colombia 5th, Jamaica 6th, U.S Virgin Islands 7th, Puerto Rico 8th, Brazil 9th and Bahamas 10th.


    • The Philippines ranks 17th in the above list and is ranked the worst country in the world outside of South & Central America, and the Caribbean.


    • Singapore tops the list for the least amount of gun related murders per 100,000 people in 2017, followed by 2) Japan 3) Indonesia 4) South Korea 5) China 6) Oman 7) United Kingdom 8) Iceland 9) Bangladesh 10) Romania.


    • In comparison......El Salvador (#1) had 41.32 gun related deaths per 100,000, Brazil 20.41, Mexico 11.49, The Philippines 9.54, USA 4.63, Afghanistan 4.55, South Africa 4.30, Thailand 3.38, Greenland 1.90, Russia 0.84, Canada 0.50, Australia 0.18, North Korea 0.11, United Kingdom 0.06, China 0.04, Singapore 0.02


    • Out of the home nations, the country with the lowest gun related murders per 100,000 was England!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Ako Si Jamie View Post


    • Out of the home nations, the country with the lowest gun related murders per 100,000 was England!
    's hardly surprising ... ... since access to firearms in the UK in general, is subject to some of the strictest control measures on the planet.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Little View Post
    's hardly surprising ... ... since access to firearms in the UK in general, is subject to some of the strictest control measures on the planet.
    Rightly so ... if horrific massacres like those which occurred at BOTH Hungerford and Dunblane were ever to be prevented from repeating themselves.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Little View Post
    Rightly so ... if horrific massacres like those which occurred at BOTH Hungerford and Dunblane were ever to be prevented from repeating themselves.
    I remember first hearing about the Hungerford massacre on the way back home from Huntly, near Aberdeen, after buying my first dog.

    I think there's been one or two massacre's since Dunblane & Hungerford. Remember that fella from Cumbria who killed a number of people in the late 90's? I think he knew everyone he murdered though. Either they ripped him off or bullied him I believe. Then about ten years ago, Raoul Moat popped off a few didn't he?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Little View Post
    's hardly surprising ... ... since access to firearms in the UK in general, is subject to some of the strictest control measures on the planet.
    What I don't get, is why countries like the USA still let their citizens arm themselves. Recipe for disaster as has been proven time and time again. Maybe they're too arrogant to admit their glaring error in that respect.


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    is there a vaccine for this those figures make it a pandemic


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