On 4/25/2010 8:17 AM, argus tuft wrote:
> * 10,177 guns were used in murders in the U.S. in 2006 while in the same
> year, Canada reported 190. That's over 5 times a higher rate in the US.

You're right about 10,177 being over 5 times higher than 190. OTOH,
10,177 is also over 50 times higher than 190, a much more impressive
statement. You truly are a master of the understatement! Perhaps you
meant 1,900? No matter, that's only 1,710 guns. Chump change in my book. :-)

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> * Around 32,000 people have been shot in America so far this year.
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> * 300 Americans are shot, on average, every day.
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> * For adults, keeping a gun in the home quadruples the risk of dying of an
> accidental gunshot wound.
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> * In 2008, 17,215 people in the U.S. were wounded in unintentional shootings
> but survived.
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> * For kids ages up to four years old, the mortality rate is 17 times higher
> in states with high number of guns, versus states with a low number of
> firearms.
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> * 33% of U.S. households contain a gun, and half reportedly don't lock up
> their weapons.
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> * A gun in the home is four times more likely to be used in an unintentional
> shooting than to be used to injure or kill in self-defense.
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