Freaking out over the number of Turkish guns
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Apparently this woman is not employed in Turkey as a data analyst.
Is it a worse situation if these 3,000 people are in Luxembourg or in China?
BruceRDucer
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They aren't like us.
["us" as in me, and the mouse in my pocket.
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["us" as in me, and the mouse in my pocket.
]If you know how to interprete lies combined with misleading figures it actualy sounds like things are pretty good there.
A whopping 1 in 20 out of those killed are 'children' (which if it is anything like here means at least 18, and sometimes includes young 20 somethings.) Another way to put that is only 5% of them are children. That beats what we have here by far considering a large number of gang members both commiting and the victims of crimes are 'children'.
Interesting breakdown of Turkey population as of 2000:
http://www.turkishodyssey.com/turkey/pop/pop.htm
40% of the population is under the age of 15! 72% under the age of 35.
So 40% of the population is under the age of 15, but only 5% of those killed are "children" including all of them and those a few years older? So almost half the population has little risk of being harmed, even the hormone charged teenagers causing trouble.
Guns are everywhere according to the article, with 40 million people out of a population of 72 million in the 2000 census, so if we round up to around 80 million to compensate for growth over half of the population of the nation has access to a firearm in the household.
Half of the population has access to a firearm according to them yet only 3,000 are killed by gunfire.
That is better than the US, where we have 290 million people and about 30,000 "firearm deaths" a year. Keep in mind many of those are police and other citizens using justified lethal force, as well as suicides of people choosing to harm themselves.
So 30,000 out of 290,000,000 is one death per 9,666.6 people.
Turkey has about 80,000,000 people and 3,000 firearm related deaths a year. That gives us 1 in 26,666.6 people.
So they have about 1/3 per capita chance of death by a firearm in that nation as citizens of the US.
They are doing just fine.
A whopping 1 in 20 out of those killed are 'children' (which if it is anything like here means at least 18, and sometimes includes young 20 somethings.) Another way to put that is only 5% of them are children. That beats what we have here by far considering a large number of gang members both commiting and the victims of crimes are 'children'.
Interesting breakdown of Turkey population as of 2000:
http://www.turkishodyssey.com/turkey/pop/pop.htm
40% of the population is under the age of 15! 72% under the age of 35.
So 40% of the population is under the age of 15, but only 5% of those killed are "children" including all of them and those a few years older? So almost half the population has little risk of being harmed, even the hormone charged teenagers causing trouble.
Guns are everywhere according to the article, with 40 million people out of a population of 72 million in the 2000 census, so if we round up to around 80 million to compensate for growth over half of the population of the nation has access to a firearm in the household.
Half of the population has access to a firearm according to them yet only 3,000 are killed by gunfire.
That is better than the US, where we have 290 million people and about 30,000 "firearm deaths" a year. Keep in mind many of those are police and other citizens using justified lethal force, as well as suicides of people choosing to harm themselves.
So 30,000 out of 290,000,000 is one death per 9,666.6 people.
Turkey has about 80,000,000 people and 3,000 firearm related deaths a year. That gives us 1 in 26,666.6 people.
So they have about 1/3 per capita chance of death by a firearm in that nation as citizens of the US.
They are doing just fine.
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