Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark and AUstralia

Quote Originally Posted by firefytr
There is no way that all of those countries have only had 112 deaths involving firearms in a years time. Sorry, I do not believe that. Something more than a television series (which I do not think is even that good) will be needed to back that up.
Zack, you have good reason to doubt.

I have already stipulated to the ~30k figure for the US. That is substantiated by many web sites. Some quickie research...

Australia
http://www.guncontrol.org.au/index.php?article=75
In 2003 they had 290 gun deaths. Several other articles mention that in the mid-1990s a typical figure would be 500-700 or so.

Looking at: http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/ficap/foru...t04lemaire.pdf (slide 9)

France looks to have about 2,400 / year (61MM population; 4 gun deaths per 100k people)

Germany: about 1,200 (82.5 MM people; rate ~1.5/100k)

Japan stands out as having like 2 a year.

From this site the UK is hard to figure out. I have seen rates of 0.5 or so per 100k for England, Wales, and Scotland, but for Northern Ireland the number jumps to 6.6/100k.

Anyway, the point is made: unless Bob can come up with a better reference for the 112 figure, it appears to be so far off the mark as to be farcical. All of which hardly excuses the number of US gun deaths, which is positively tragic.