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wFriday, January 10, 2003

Why Moore Matters

Michael Moore.com : Donahue Interview May I just review, Michael, here are gun deaths in a year. We hear this all the time, but it just -- Germany, 381, France, 255 -- this is one year. Canada, 165 deaths, United Kingdom, 68, Australia, 65, Japan, 39. The United States of America, 11,127.

(both this and my previous post were picked up via Cursor)

WORLD POPULATIONS
United States - 274,943,496
Germany - 82,081,365
France - 59,128,187
Canada - 31,330,255
United Kingdom - 59,247,439
Australia - 18,950,108
Japan - 126,434,470

I did some math for you lazy bastards:

United States	1 in 24,709
Canada	1 in 189,880
Germany	1 in 215,436
France	1 in 231,875
Australia	1 in 291,540
United Kingdom	1 in 871,285
Japan	1 in 3,241,909

Make sure to read that twice. They're listed from highest to lowest. The United States number is 5 digits, the rest are at 6, and Japan is at 7. You are over a hundred times more likely to die from a gunshot in America than you are in Japan.

And yes, I have seen the movie, it was great.

posted by Matthew Carroll-Schmidt at 1:57 PM

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