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Old 05-28-2013, 09:22 PM
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Originally Posted by chasingtail View Post
The murder rate has everything to do with the demographics of the United States and little to do with guns.

Murder Rate per 100,000
Africa:17
Mexico: 23.7
UK: 1.2
USA: 4.8

USA is actually doing pretty good for what they have to work with.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ted_death_rate
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