Hello David!

21 Jan 16 05:35, you wrote to Kurt Weiske:

 LL>>> 13,346 firearms deaths in USA, 2015.
 LL>>> Compare that number with those in Oz.

 KW>> 220-something, in a country with a fraction of the population

 DD> USA population - about 320 million
 DD> Australia population - about 24 million

 DD> About 1/13

 KW>> and a fraction of the population density.

 DD> Australia population density - 3 persons per km2
 DD> USA population density - 34 persons km2

 DD> About 1/11th

 DD> Neither of the above "fractions" collate with the vastly greater number of
 DD> shooting deaths in USA.

 DD> The firearm density may have something to do with it...

 DD> Note. The Netherlands population density is 495 persons per km2. What is
 DD> their annual shooting deaths figure? Is is the same "fraction" as the
 DD> USofA?

 What I could find was 163 killings on a population of 16.6 million in 2011.


Kees

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