Weapons

Death by the Numbers: Global Data Correlates Guns to Deaths & Homicide

 - The more firearms a country has the more deaths by firearms occur. Surprising? Opportunity facilitates use.

- Conflict regions where guns are available have proportionately higher rates and % of death by firearms. When people use firearms to settle disputes (personal or tribal) people get killed.

- Countries with fewer firearms have fewer deaths by firearms.

- In other words, there is a positive correlation between the availability of weapons and their use to kill people and other living things.