Weiser says:
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The United States, despite its high murder rate, was among the
middle ranking countries with a 21 percent victimization rate,"
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Whoooaaaa!! Let's not gloss over this one eh? After all, we are talking
about the impact of guns -- things that KILL -- in this thread.

From a 2000 New Zealand gov't study:

http://www.justice.govt.nz/pubs/repo...ime/index.html

Murders per 100,000 population

USA: 5.5
CANADA: 1.8
NZ: 1.8
AUSTRALIA: 1.8

That would be a ratio of 3:1... I'm 3 times as likely to be killed in
the USA than in Canada (by NZ stats).

Hmmm

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