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Rank   Countries  Amount  (top to bottom)   
#1   South Africa: 31,918 
#2   Colombia: 21,898 
#3   Thailand: 20,032 
#4   United States: 9,369 
#5   Philippines: 7,708 
#6   Mexico: 2,606 
#7   Slovakia: 2,356 
#8   El Salvador: 1,441 
#9   Zimbabwe: 598 
#10   Peru: 442 
#11   Germany: 269 
#12   Czech Republic: 181 
#13   Ukraine: 173 
#14   Canada: 144 
#15   Albania: 135 
#16   Costa Rica: 131 
#17   Azerbaijan: 120 
#18   Poland: 111 
#19   Uruguay: 109 
#20   Spain: 97 
#21   Portugal: 90 
#22   Croatia: 76 
#23   Switzerland: 68 
#24   Bulgaria: 63 
#25   Australia: 59 
#26   Sweden: 58 
#27   Bolivia: 52 
#28   Japan: 47 
#29   Slovenia: 39 
#30   Hungary: 38 
#31   Belarus: 38 
#32   Latvia: 28 
#33   Burma: 27 
#34   Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: 26 
#35   Austria: 25 
#36   Estonia: 21 
#37   Moldova: 20 
#38   Lithuania: 16 
#39   United Kingdom: 14 
#40   Denmark: 14 
#41   Ireland: 12 
#42   New Zealand: 10 
#43   Chile: 9 
#44   Cyprus: 4 
#45   Morocco: 1 
#46   Iceland: 0 
#47   Luxembourg: 0 
#48   Oman: 0 
Total: 100,693  
Weighted average: 2,097.8  


DEFINITION: Total recorded intentional homicides committed with a firearm. Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.

SOURCE: The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention)

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Aonghas Crowe
15th October 2005 		Many Americans, when it comes to their beloved guns, gleefully throw all logic out the window. It boggles my mind how anyone can believe that keeping an armed weapon in their home will make them safer.

I've read that for every intruder shot dead by an armed homeowner, eighteen people use guns to commit suicide. So much for self-protection! A few months ago while watching a documentary on a trauma unit at a hospital in Florida, the ER doctor interviewed commented that most of the people he was treating for gunshot wounds had the holes put into them by someone they knew, namely, angry husbands, jealous girlfriends, drunk neighbors, and so on.

However anecdotal these may be, it remains an indisputable fact that countries which restrict private ownership of firearms also suffer the lowest number of gun-related deaths.
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