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I wonder how many of these guns belong to the police (and hence the murders can't be prevented by reducing civil gun ownership)...

• icebraining 11y ago
  http://killedbypolice.net/ http://killedbypolice.net/ You can just subtract the numbers.
  • NiftyFifty 11y ago
    10% demographic, when you break down the numbers last I checked. But ya.
  • largorn 11y ago
    This is crazy. I recently stumbled upon the numbers for gun-killings by German police, I can't believe how much these numbers diverge: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffengebrauch_der_Polizei_in_Deutschland#Zahlen https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffengebrauch_der_Polizei_in_... (Second column is "number of fatal shots", third is "total number of shots fired at people") Of course, the USA have 4 times as many inhabitants and the German numbers are only related to gun-killings, not other methods. But still, they are in a completely different dimension.
• tootie 11y ago
  I'd reckon that most incidents of police shooting civilians is due to civilians armed with guns.
  • Carrok 11y ago
    You'd reckon, eh? I'd beg to differ.
    • tootie 11y ago
      Seriously? There have been plenty of incidents in the news of police taking out a gunman who was either firing on people or threatening to. They just don't register as police violence because everyone knows they are justified.
• ocdtrekkie 11y ago
  Well, arguably, the article states two-thirds of these gun deaths are suicides, so not many, to be fair.