Rigeri

Interesting stuff I found online.. So I'll share it with you guys...

The film "Bowling for Columbine" provided statistics comparing the total number of gun murders in different countries but those numbers should be compared to the populations of each country.

In the film "Bowling for Columbine", Michael Moore provides statistics indicating the total number of gun murders in several countries but failed to provide statistics on a per capita basis. By comparing those numbers with the population figures for those countries from the CIA World FactBook 2002, I discovered the following:

A citizen of the U.S. is:
-- 8.7 times as likely as a citizen of Germany;
-- 9.3 times as likely as a citizen of France;
-- 7.7 times as likely as a citizen of Canada;
-- 35 times as likely as a citizen of the U.K.;
-- 11.9 times as likely as a citizen of Australia;
-- 129 times as likely as a citizen of Japan
to be murdered by a gun.

Michael Moore's stats:
Germany, 381 gun murders.
France, 255 gun murders.
Canada, 165 gun murders.
UK, 68 gun murders.
Australia, 65 gun murders.
Japan, 39 gun murders.
U.S., 11,127 gun murders.

CIA World Factbook 2002 population stats:
Germany, 83,251,851
France, 59,765,983
Canada, 31,902,268
U.K., 59,778,002
Australia, 19,546,792
Japan, 126,974,628
U.S., 280,562,489

http://arizona.indymedia.org/news/20...89_comment.php

ChocolateIsGood

My friend was shot and killed last week. I miss him so much.

Rigeri

Awww I´m sorry.. I hope my thread doesn't offend you

ChocolateIsGood

It's ok. No, it doesn't. It just reminded me of it.

Jerod

Of course we know the USA is more common with crime and violence. The only difference is that we have more freedoms, and that's why people choose to fight and kill each other. From my point of view, we kill each other more than we kill of our enemies across the oceans.

Rigeri

how do you have more freedom ?

I always thought people in Europe had more freedom.. hmm.. maybe I´m wrong..

Anyway the point really is that 11 thousand is like.. wow.. Its like 4x more than the people that died in the WTC attack

Rigeri

The point of the film I think is that people buy it as protection (probably against other people that have guns also)

And that the guns that are made to "protect" are really the problem

And by the way I´m not at all trying to offend americans or anything like that.. I was just surfing the internet and saw this.. thought it was interesting so I decided to share it here

ChocolateIsGood

Over there, you don't seem to have such a problem with nudity. Over here it's a big deal.
Is that true, or is someone makin' it seem that way down there?

Rigeri

Hmm I think people are more open minded in Europe.. and also nudity and stuff like that is not as big deal in most countries... But just less big deal.. also many people that make a big deal out of it, angry parents writing letters to TV stations because of nudity or porn or something...

So yeah I think Its not as big deal in Europe.. but still not as much as people think it is

I mean I once saw a show about TV commercials around the world.. and I noticed that the ones from Europe allow more things like nudity than in the US

Also you can start drinking alcohol and stuff like that younger I think in most countries.. But I mean countries in Europe are very diffirent from each other

ChocolateIsGood

I saw something like that. Yes, alot of other countries don't mind nudity.

Nudity doesn't really bother me though.