THE COUNTRY WITH 40% OF THE WORLD’S FIREARMS COMMITS LESS THAN 4% OF THE WORLD’S HOMICIDES


THE COUNTRY WITH 40% OF THE WORLD’S FIREARMS COMMITS LESS THAN 4% OF THE WORLD’S HOMICIDES

When a new study came out finding that America is home to 40% of the world’s firearms, the media had a field day. “America has 40% of the world’s guns, despite having just 4% of the world’s population!” blared headlines across to country.
What the media left out, however, is that, despite having so many firearms, Americans commit just 3.7% of the world’s homicides. The data (2014):
World Population: 7,298,453,033
U.S. Population: 318,857,056 (4.4% of world total)
World Homicides: 384,553
U.S. Homicides: 14,249 (3.7% of world total)
In other words, Americans commit just 3.7% of the world’s murders, despite having 4.4% of the world’s population and 40% of the world’s firearms — further evidence that other factors, NOT gun ownership, are responsible for homicide rates.
But that headline doesn’t play into the media’s gun control narrative, which is why you didn’t see it.

SOURCES:
https://www.newsweek.com/americans-have-40-percent-worlds-guns-despite-being-four-percent-population-984773
https://www.smallarmssurvey.org/sites/default/files/resources/SAS-BP-Civilian-Firearms-Numbers.pdf
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/tables/table-1
https://ourworldindata.org/homicides

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