The system ate my reply, but it was pretty much the same. Here are the FBI's figures for the USA (2005-2010):David Robertson wrote:'Carried out' where? This statement is true only for the UK where, of course, access to guns is strictly controlled. So, in 2011-12, there were 550 murders in the UK, of which only 39 were by fire arms.Louise Sinclair wrote:I would note that the majority of killings are carried out with weapons which are not guns
For America, the statement is nonsense. Over a similar period (latest 2009-10), there were 13,756 murders in the US, of which 9,203 were by fire arms. The annual rate for gun-related murder in the US fluctuates between 67-70% of all murders over the past two decades.
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/cr ... rtbl08.xls
The only bright spot is that the numbers are falling.