U.S. most armed country with 90 guns per 100 people

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[Sub-Driver]

U.S. most armed country with 90 guns per 100 people

By Laura MacInnis 28 minutes ago

The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said.

U.S. citizens own 270 million of the world's 875 million known firearms, according to the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies.

About 4.5 million of the 8 million new guns manufactured worldwide each year are purchased in the United States, it said.

"There is roughly one firearm for every seven people worldwide. Without the United States, though, this drops to about one firearm per 10 people," it said.

India had the world's second-largest civilian gun arsenal, with an estimated 46 million firearms outside law enforcement and the military, though this represented just four guns per 100 people there. China, ranked third with 40 million privately held guns, had 3 firearms per 100 people.

Germany, France, Pakistan, Mexico, Brazil and Russia were next in the ranking of country's overall civilian gun arsenals.

On a per-capita basis, Yemen had the second most heavily armed citizenry behind the United States, with 61 guns per 100 people, followed by Finland with 56, Switzerland with 46, Iraq with 39 and Serbia with 38.

[Sub-Driver]

the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies.....left wing think tank.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

90 per 100 is surely a good start.

[Red Badger]

With all these libs around?..........Somebody must be gettin more than their share!...........

[counterpunch]

The 2nd Amendment is alive and well.

[edcoil]

sadly the libs can speak out and attack us knowing they are perfectly protected by those that they oppose.

[2001convSVT]

Come on people we need 100 guns for every 100 people. We all need to go out and buy, buy, buy until we can achieve 100 out of 100!

[Centurion2000]

USA, Finland and Switzerland .... that’s pretty good company to have.

[Sybeck1]

I feel so inadequate in the fact I only have my .45 Springfield now.

[goldstategop]

We need to make it 100% Bump! An armed society is a polite - and a free society.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[P8riot]

The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens

Wrong! All citizens are armed, the rest are subjects.

[babyfreep]

sadly the libs can speak out and attack us knowing they are perfectly protected by those that they oppose.

That's some crazy irony, there.

[Domandred]

How do we arm the other 10?

[SmithL]

How many countries actually have the right to bear arms in their constitutions?

[processing please hold]

Somebody must be gettin more than their share!...........

hehehehe ;)

[IslandJeff]

We need to raise that past “replacement rate” - so everyone should have at least 2.2.

[shag377]

I freely admit that I am guilty of being in the statistic that allows for such a high number of non gun-owning libs to be counted in the 90 out of 100.

I buy a new gun whenever I feel the need, which is often.

Like Sen. Graham said, “I have more shotguns than I need, but fewer shotguns than I want.”

[Rummyfan]

Only ninety guns per one hundred people? My household, with five for two, is carrying a couple of others....

[flashbunny]

We don’t - they should be used to reload mags instead.

[Brakeman]

Yeah but guns cause crime, and we know how bad crime is among the indigenous populations of Switzerland and Finland ;-)