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Very much bullshit, adding all war victims since WW2 don't ever come close to that number. And I doubt her are more than one or two millions murder victims sinc

• maxerickson 13y ago
  The world is a bigger more violent place than that. There are presently hundreds of thousands murders each year. So something like 2 million people have been murdered the last 5 or 6 years. (but still all those acts aren't being done with 1 single type of rifle)
• morsch 13y ago
  The definition of war victim is debatable, but I'm pretty sure any sensible definition will result in casualties much higher than 2 million since 1945. The number of soldiers of the North Vietnamese forces who died seems to be around 1 million, for example. If you include civilian casualties -- and why wouldn't you -- it seems that the Vietnam War alone cost almost 2 million people their lives. The number of murders seems to be around 450000 per year, world wide, with, I assume, lower numbers in the past due to a lower overall population. Still, easily more than 2 million since 1947. I'm not saying that in either of those figures the AK47 (or, in fact, any small arms) were significantly involved, but that wasn't the question.
• vacri 13y ago
  Over the past decade, the US has had between 11-18k murders per year. Back-of-the-enveloping it to a bit less than 10k/year for 66 years gives us around half a million murders in the US. The US has a depressingly world-average rate of murder, and is only 5% of world population.