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Source: Gun Control, A realistic Assessment by Don Kates
http://www.frontiernet.net/~dax/gun-control.html
INTERNATIONAL INTENTIONAL HOMICIDE TABLE
Table is based on figures from two different sources (as further specified below): insofar as they
are given therein, all figures are from the 1983-6 averages in Killias' Tables 1 & 2;{152} insofar
as Killias does not give figures they are from the latest year listed for the country in U.N.
DEMOGRAPHIC YEARBOOK-1985 (published, 1987). Figures from Killias are in bold face;
all other figures are in ordinary type.
Country Suicide Homicide TOTAL
RUMANIA 66.2 n.a. 66.2 (1984)
HUNGARY 45.9 n.a. 45.9 (1983)
DENMARK 28.7 .7 29.4 (1984)
AUSTRIA 26.9 1.5 28.4 (1984)
FINLAND 24.4 (1983) 2.86 27.2
FRANCE 21.8 (1983) 4.36 26.16
SWITZERLAND 24.45 1.13 25.58
BELGIUM 23.15 1.85 25.
W. GERMANY 20.37 1.48 21.85
JAPAN 20.3 .9 21.2
U.S. 12.2 (1982) 7.59 19.79
CANADA 13.94 2.6 16.54
NORWAY 14.5 (1984) 1.16 15.66
N. IRELAND 9.0 6.0 15.0
(Homicide rate may not include "political" homicides)
AUSTRALIA 11.58 1.95 13.53
NEW ZEALAND 9.7 1.6 24.5
ENGLAND/WALES 8.61 .67 9.28
(Homicide rate does not include "political" homicides)
ISRAEL 6. 2. 8.
The evidence from international comparisons is confirmed by the various neutral attempts to
determine whether gun ownership causes violence footnoted earlier and by the most extensive and
methodologically sophisticated study, Kleck's application of modern, computer-assisted statistical
techniques to post-World War II American crime rate data. The interactive cause and effect result
he found contradicts that posited by anti-gun crusaders. Kleck concludes that from the 1960s on
fear engendered by violent crime sparked enormously increased gun ownership among the general
populace. This increased gun ownership did not itself increase crime of any kind (if anything, it
dampened it); but an increase in gun ownership, or at least in gun use, by criminals helped cause
the post-1960 increases violent crime, including murder.{153}
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