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U.S. most armed country with 90 guns per 100 people



(Reuters) - The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said.

U.S. citizens own 270 million of the world's 875 million known firearms, according to the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies.

About 4.5 million of the 8 million new guns manufactured worldwide each year are purchased in the United States, it said.

"There is roughly one firearm for every seven people worldwide. Without the United States, though, this drops to about one firearm per 10 people," it said.

India had the world's second-largest civilian gun arsenal, with an estimated 46 million firearms outside law enforcement and the military, though this represented just four guns per 100 people there. China, ranked third with 40 million privately held guns, had 3 firearms per 100 people.

Germany, France, Pakistan, Mexico, Brazil and Russia were next in the ranking of country's overall civilian gun arsenals.

On a per-capita basis, Yemen had the second most heavily armed citizenry behind the United States, with 61 guns per 100 people, followed by Finland with 56, Switzerland with 46, Iraq with 39 and Serbia with 38.

France, Canada, Sweden, Austria and Germany were next, each with about 30 guns per 100 people, while many poorer countries often associated with violence ranked much lower. Nigeria, for instance, had just one gun per 100 people.

"Firearms are very unevenly distributed around the world. The image we have of certain regions such as Africa or Latin America being awash with weapons -- these images are certainly misleading," Small Arms Survey director Keith Krause said.

"Weapons ownership may be correlated with rising levels of wealth, and that means we need to think about future demand in parts of the world where economic growth is giving people larger disposable income," he told a Geneva news conference.

The report, which relied on government data, surveys and media reports to estimate the size of world arsenals, estimated there were 650 million civilian firearms worldwide, and 225 million held by law enforcement and military forces.

Five years ago, the Small Arms Survey had estimated there were a total of just 640 million firearms globally.

"Civilian holdings of weapons worldwide are much larger than we previously believed," Krause said, attributing the increase largely to better research and more data on weapon distribution networks.

Only about 12 percent of civilian weapons are thought to be registered with authorities.

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Hate groups, citizen militias surge in U.S. as race and economy fuel tensions
Reuters Mar 9, 2012

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina — The number of hate and anti-government groups in the United States continued to rise last year, fueled by racial tensions, conspiracy theories and anger over economic inequality, according to a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The most explosive growth came from the so-called Patriot movement, whose adherents view the federal government as their enemy.

The Patriot movement reached a peak in 1996, a year after right-wing extremist Timothy McVeigh set off a truck bomb outside the Oklahoma City federal building, killing 168 people. McVeigh and a co-conspirator were convicted, and McVeigh was executed.

The number of Patriot groups, a largely rural phenomenon sometimes referred to as the militia movement, increased to 1,274 groups in 2011 from 824 in 2010, the report released on Thursday said.

The number of those organizations has swelled in recent years since the economy slumped into recession and Democratic President Barack Obama, the country's first black president, was elected in 2008, said the law center, which has tracked extremist groups for three decades.

A backlash against federal bail outs of the bank and auto industries, and discredited allegations that Obama was not born in the United States and therefore disqualified to be president, provided believers with the rationale to join such groups, according to the report.

Heated political rhetoric from this year's presidential campaign could attract more adherents, said Mark Potok, senior fellow at the center and editor of the report.

"The campaign season has simply added fuel to the fire," Potok said. These groups vehemently oppose Obama and abhor the possibility that he could be re-elected to a second term in November. "To them, that's a horror show," Potok said. The center counted 1,018 hate groups in the United States last year, up from 1,002 in 2010. The number of groups have been increasing since 2000, when the center counted 602.

Potok said it was hard to gauge how many Americans are members of hate groups, but estimated the number was between 200,000 and 300,000 people.


The U.S. election campaign season has simply added fuel to the fire

The center also estimated that some 300,000 Americans were part of the so-called "sovereign citizens" movement who flout most laws, do not pay federal taxes and even refuse to obtain driver's licenses.

The report's findings echoed comments last month in Washington by the FBI about a growing threat of violence by members of these "sovereign citizen" groups.

Stuart McArthur, deputy assistant director in the FBI's counterterrorism division, told a news conference that routine encounters with police can turn violent "at the drop of a hat." He cited shootings of police officers after routine traffic stops in Arkansas and Texas the past two years.

Convictions of such extremists, mostly for white-collar crimes such as fraud, increased to 18 each in 2010 and 2011 from 10 in 2009, the FBI said.

Most members of hate groups and anti-government organizations have not committed crimes, Potok said. But the center's report highlighted recent examples where authorities accused militia members of plotting violence.

In one case, authorities accused four Georgia members of a militia group of plotting to obtain explosives and produce the deadly toxin ricin, with which they intended to attack government officials.

In Michigan, seven members of a Midwestern militia group called the Hutaree are standing trial on charges that they plotted to kill police to spark a wider insurrection.

The law center also found the number of groups specifically targeting gays and lesbians rose to 27 in 2011 from 17 in 2010, and the number of anti-Muslim groups jumped to 30 from 10.

But the number of so-called "nativist extremist" groups who harass people they suspect of being illegal immigrants appeared to be in decline. The number of those groups dropped to 184 in 2011 from 319 the year before.

The center attributed the decline in part to the push in some states for laws aimed at cracking down on illegal immigrants, the report said. "Nativist groups have lost the wind in their sails as their issue has been co-opted by politicians," Potok said.

The Southern Poverty Law Center was formed in the early 1970s to defend the legal rights of African Americans following the civil rights reforms of the 1960s. It was instrumental in some convictions of members of white supremacist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan for civil rights abuses against blacks. It has broadened to other issues in recent years.

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United States incarceration rate



The incarceration rate in the United States of America is the highest in the world. As of 2009, the incarceration rate was 743 per 100,000 of national population (0.743%).:facepalm: In comparison, Canada was 123rd in the world as 117 per 100,000, and China had 120 per 100,000. While Americans only represent about 5 percent of the world's population, nearly one-quarter of the entire world's inmates have been incarcerated in the United States in recent years :tsk:. Imprisonment of America's 2.3 million prisoners, costing $24,000 yearly, and $5.1 billion in new prison construction, consumes $60 billion in budget expenditures. :toilet:

United States incarceration rate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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the main thing in this news is as below. that is, 1 in 32 Americans there is either in jail or about to visit there :tsk:



File:Correctional Populations in the United States 1980-2008.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
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(Reuters) - The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said.
Randomly select 100 US citizens. Will 90 of them own guns? No, they will not. Reuters and Brit tabloids are not a good source of news about the US.

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Randomly select 100 US citizens. Will 90 of them own guns? No, they will not. Reuters and Brit tabloids are not a good source of news about the US.

hello_10 is a tedious monomaniac.
boss, Im running this topic and keep opening this thread on time to time to get new ideas from other members :ranger:

if you enter in this thread, you get to know few very special search on this topic by me, and I guess, it would become more interesting if US dont cross the 'Debt Ceiling' and prefer not to pay Welfare to its civilians :wave:

Im only intended to welcome new ideas/news from other members on the topics/thread Im running. similarly how I have an answer for you, that is, only 47% US's civilians own guns but the number of guns is around 90% to the total population of US. is it clear????? read it as below, i posted it before :truestory:

Why Americans think it is right to own guns?

After mass shootings killed 12 moviegoers in Aurora, Colorado, and six Sikh worshippers in Wisconsin this summer, it may seem a little bizarre that many Americans insist people have the right — an inalienable right — to buy a gun that can spit 60 bullets per second.

Yet it is such a deep part of the culture that no event, not these murders or the more ordinary 11,500 other firearm-related homicides that take place every year in the US, not to mention that 17,500 gun-related suicides, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, can dislodge the notion that the ownership of more than 300 million guns makes us safer.

The belief in guns is so strong that solution to gun-related murders is often imagined to be more guns. For example, even after a horrific campus shooting at Virginia Tech in 2007 that resulted in 32 deaths, some politicians pointed to the university's campus-wide gun ban as a contributing factor, on the theory that the problem wasn't that the unbalanced student came to school with two semi-automatic weapons but that students and faculty weren't themselves armed. Nor were they alone: a national student group of over 15,000 members formed asking to overturn laws restricting the use of concealed weapons on campus.

The Right Stuff

The legal foundation of this madness is the Second Amendment to the Constitution, which reads "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

That might not sound like a blanket right to bear arms, and it wasn't intended as such. Fearful of European-style standing armies, the authors of the amendment believed that citizen militias were the only way to prevent tyranny, according to historian Saul Cornell, writing in his 2006 book A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America. Cornell concluded in his study that they saw the amendment as more of a guarantee of a civic obligation than a personal right.

In fact, it's so hard to read as a personal right that it wasn't until 2010 that the Supreme Court successfully overcame the text and with no equivocation ruled that the second amendment meant people had a personal right to keep and bear arms, unconnected to military service.

The truth is that the right to gun ownership is much more securely fixed in our hearts than in our laws — and in recent years, a triumph of the well-organised and well-funded pro-gun lobby. In 1959, when Gallup first asked the question, 60% of people favoured a general handgun ban. Asked recently, it's fallen to 26% — a record low. True, more people support a ban on semiautomatic weapons — 53% — but gun ownership remains high: 47% say they have a gun in their house.

How did this happen? There is a residual love of guns that is a legacy of pioneer days and among rural people, a reflection of an attachment to hunting. Certainly, some people do hunt — a few kids I grew up with out in Oregon hunted. My best friend in junior high would always gnaw on homemade venison for his lunch — salty gray-green stuff that had the consistency of rope.

Every year, a hunters' club offered a hunter's safety course in the evening, after school, which were lectures you needed to pass to get your hunting licence — but the course always sounded a bit boring, like becoming a Boy Scout, and hunting itself was more a hobby some families had, like going to church, not a subject everyone thought about or talked about.

But hunting is not really what's behind the still-growing love of guns. President Obama, as candidate Obama in 2008, in a rare moment of accidental candour once described the residents of dying industrial towns in the Midwest as bitter people who "cling to guns or religion". Although he later recanted, he was right to a certain extent. At the same time, he also missed the point: in the US, guns have become a kind of religion in themselves. 'Power'

In May, 24-year-old James Holmes, a failing University of Colorado student, started buying guns. He bought four guns at Denver-area gun shops, including a 12-gauge Remington 870 Express Tactical shotgun, a Smith & Wesson M&P 15 semi-automatic rifle, and a Glock 22 handgun.

Around the same time, Holmes also began ordering bullets and body armour online — reportedly over 50 packages, according to newspaper accounts. On July 20, he bought a ticket for the midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises Again, the latest Batman saga. Then about 20 minutes into the movie, went out to his car, girded himself up with his arsenal, came back and started shooting.

Clint Eastwood once said he made his violent movies to give people hope, imagining a young guy who has a job, maybe cleaning swimming pools, and has no sense of hope for the future. :facepalm: :tsk:

Why Americans think it is right to own guns? - Economic Times
 

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U.S. is nearing its debt ceiling again, Treasury Department warns

The federal government will probably hit its $16.4-trillion borrowing limit by the end of the year, adding more urgency to efforts to avoid the fiscal cliff.

October 31, 2012

WASHINGTON — The nation's debt ceiling once again looms as the spark to congressional brinkmanship that could threaten the slowly recovering economy.

The Treasury Department said Wednesday that the U.S. probably will hit its $16.4-trillion borrowing limit by the end of the year, at the same time that Congress will be grappling with the automatic tax hikes and large government spending cuts scheduled to kick in Jan. 1.

"It adds to the caldron of the dark brew," Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, said of the fast-approaching debt limit. "That makes the disaster more disastrous." :usa:

The Congressional Budget Office and most economists predict another recession in 2013 if the confluence of tax increases and spending reductions known as the fiscal cliff takes place.

And straying too close to the debt limit — not to mention hitting it — probably would lead to a second downgrade of the U.S. credit rating. In mid-2011, a bitter standoff over the issue led to the first credit revision. :tsk: :facepalm:

The Treasury said Wednesday it could take "extraordinary measures" to juggle the nation's finances to give Congress and the White House more time to work on a debt-limit increase. But even those steps — essentially a series of accounting maneuvers — would buy only into early 2013 before the government faced a possible default.

As of Tuesday, the U.S. debt was $16.165 trillion. (at tuesday at 30/10/2012)

"I think that, as we saw last summer [2011], it's important that the debt limit is raised in a timely manner, but really that's in Congress' hands," said Matthew Rutherford, assistant Treasury secretary for financial markets.

It was the agreement then to boost the limit that created the $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts that are part of the fiscal cliff. The other part is the expiration of the George W. Bush-era tax cuts.

Lawmakers and President Obama will try to deal with the fiscal cliff after next week's elections. The debt limit will probably be addressed then as well, although it has not yet been the focus of Democrats or Republicans.

House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) said in May that he had a simple principle for raising the debt limit — any increase must be offset "by spending cuts and reforms that exceed the amount of the debt limit increase."

"No decisions have been made on timing, but the speaker's principle — that spending cuts and reforms must exceed any debt hike — will have to be met," Boehner spokesman Kevin Smith said Wednesday.

A White House spokeswoman declined to comment.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, have warned about the negative ramifications for the U.S. and world economies if the debt limit is not raised.

U.S. is nearing its debt ceiling again, Treasury Department warns - Los Angeles Times
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Americans Renouncing Citizenship at Record Levels to Protect Wealth
June 25, 2012

NEW YORK -- – America's rich are renouncing their citizenship at record levels -- just to get richer.

Startling new data from Uncle Sam show that defections by Americans are expected to double this year, largely to avoid any stiff tax bills resulting from the proposed 55 percent hike on the rich, as well as the likely Dec. 31 expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts. :toilet:

As many as 8,000 US citizens are projected by immigration officials to renounce in 2012, or about 154 a week, versus 3,805 in 2011, or about 73 per week.

"High-net-worth individuals are making decisions that having a US passport just isn't worth the cost anymore," :tsk: according to Jim Duggan, a lawyer at Duggan Bertsch, which specializes in protecting assets of the wealthy. "They're able to do what they do from any place in the world, and they're choosing to do it from places with much lower tax rates."


Duggan added, "Some are philosophically disgusted at the course our country is taking, in all kinds of ways. They're making a strong protest of 'enough is enough.' But largely, it's an economic decision."

There is a catch to reaching tax nirvana. To renounce citizenship, and thus escape any future US taxes forever, a citizen must buy that freedom with a one-time exit tax of 15 percent on the fair-market value of all assets -- including real estate, securities, businesses and personal belongings -- less their basis price.

Duggan said that dozens of tax-haven nations and island regimes around the world eagerly welcome disenchanted rich Americans with quick citizenship, business deals and protections from the US Justice Department and the IRS. Among the popular spots: Australia, Norway, Singapore, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Guernsey and Antigua.

And there is one way to have your cake and eat it, too, he added.

The US possessions in the Caribbean -- St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix -- give a 90 percent tax credit to US citizens living there at least 183 days a year, resulting in an effective tax rate of just 3.5 percent, he said.

Americans Renouncing Citizenship at Record Levels to Protect Wealth | Fox News Latino
December 5, 2012

WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama told about 105 chief executives of big companies Wednesday that higher-income Americans—including those in the audience—should face higher tax rates. :rofl: A few blocks away, Republicans huddled with small-business owners to promote the argument that a rate increase would stifle the economy.

The dueling events perfectly illustrated how the two parties are courting different allies in the private sector as each aims to deploy public pressure in the stalled "fiscal cliff" budget talks. :toilet:

Obama, GOP Each Pitch to Business - WSJ.com
 
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More spam from hello_10 of the 50 kopeck army.:rolleyes:

I reported this thread as spam, so we'll see what happens.

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As far as I am concerened good riddance to bad rubbish and I dont care if the door does hit them in the real end on the way out. There are 300 plus million americans if 8000 want to leave, it does not bother me.
 

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More spam from hello_10 of the 50 kopeck army.:rolleyes:

I reported this thread as spam, so we'll see what happens.

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Well, what you would expect from someone who claims that he still lives in Soviet Union.:pound:

You know how it works, that he probably blieve in socialism, and was teached that USA is the purest evil, and such bullcrap.
 

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Well, what you would expect from someone who claims that he still lives in Soviet Union.:pound:

You know how it works, that he probably blieve in socialism, and was teached that USA is the purest evil, and such bullcrap.
O yaah, I dont know that SU doesn't exist anymore while you can prove yourself intelligent 'only' this way :wave:

its not just me, but it has been accepted in the media of whole world, including in Indian news papers I have read since 2002, and also accepted by US's officials itself as below, that is, "it was the OBL's 9/11, why US could understand that terrorism is terrorism, Good or Bad".
it was the OBL who taught US about the word, Terrorism, to help them make difference between Good and Bad terrorism :usa:

I became Secretary of State, they were trying to basically appease the Pakistani Taliban who were attacking them. So they were trying to draw a distinction between the good terrorists and the bad terrorists, because we had funded the "good terrorists" together. :usa:

Referring to the support US provided to these insurgent groups during the fight against the Russians in Afghanistan, Clinton said when she meets Pakistani officials, they rightly say, "You're the ones who told us to cooperate with these people. You're the ones who funded them. :pakistan:

Pak making error by supporting terror groups against India: US : Americas, News - India Today
 
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O yaah, I dont know that SU doesn't exist anymore while you can prove yourself intelligent 'only' this way :wave:

its not just me, but it has been accepted in the media of whole world, including in Indian news papers I have read since 2002, and also accepted by US's officials itself as below, that is, "it was the OBL's 9/11, why US could understand that terrorism is terrorism, Good or Bad".
it was the OBL who taught US about the word, Terrorism, to help them make difference between Good and Bad terrorism :usa:
 
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Well, what you would expect from someone who claims that he still lives in Soviet Union.:pound:

You know how it works, that he probably blieve in socialism, and was teached that USA is the purest evil, and such bullcrap.
Damn Commie Nazis!

 
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Damn Commie Nazis!
Well technically Nazis are same socialists as the ones in Soviet Union.

I suggest to watch this documentary.


There are six parts.
 
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May be the fear of the spread of communism in the west is what made the politicians to develop their own peoples social standards. So as communism will not get them and turn them against the rich and powerful.

Either way there can be no equality, human thought by its nature is protective of what it has, if we think we own something then we will protect it and that eventually leads to someone haveing less or more. The way human mind is structured equality is impossible.
 

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Exactly! So capitalism is far closer to human nature, to nature at all, than stupid utopia like socialism.
 

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Exactly! So capitalism is far closer to human nature, to nature at all, than stupid utopia like socialism.
I do not believe in any system, I only believe in myself, its every man for himself. Sure Capitalism made USA great but when something is high and mighty we forget to see its negative effects, Until the champion falls we admire him. Sure harnessing mans greed to work for him is good but as the saying goes "the planet has for everyones needs but not for everyones greed's".

However i do not dispute it is better than other systems of economics which are Utopian. I suppose i will enjoy my I-pod till acid rains kill my next generation. lol
 

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I do not believe in any system, I only believe in myself, its every man for himself.
And this is exactly capitalism. ;)

Sure Capitalism made USA great but when something is high and mighty we forget to see its negative effects, Until the champion falls we admire him.
But capitalism made every nation grate. Be it British Empire, pre first world war Germany, as you say USA, Canada, or for example Japan. Even Chinese improved their economy thanks to capitalism, not socialism, despite that China is ruled by socialist monoparty.

Capitalism is just apex and best of economic systems.

I suppose i will enjoy my I-pod till acid rains kill my next generation. lol
Exagaration. Allready in USA where capitalism is still very strongly supported, there are slow but steady attempts to use more fuel efficent and cleaner energy sources.
 
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