Here’s how things shake out:
- If it were a country, New Orleans (with a rate 62.1 gun murders per 100,000 people) would rank second in the world. - Detroit’s gun homicide rate (35.9) is just a bit less than El Salvador (39.9). - Baltimore’s rate (29.7) is not too far off that of Guatemala (34.8). - Newark (25.4) and Miami (23.7) have gun murder statistics comparable to Colombia (27.1). - Washington D.C. (19) has a higher rate of gun homicide than Brazil (18.1). - Atlanta’s rate (17.2) is about the same as South Africa (17). - Cleveland (17.4) has a higher rate than the Dominican Republic (16.3). - Gun murder in Buffalo (16.5) is similar to Panama (16.2). - Houston’s rate (12.9) is slightly higher than Ecuador’s (12.7). - Gun homicide in Chicago (11.6) is similar to Guyana (11.5). - Phoenix’s rate (10.6) is slightly higher than Mexico (10). - Los Angeles (9.2) is comparable to the Philippines (8.9). - Boston rate (6.2) is higher than Nicaragua (5.9). The thing that stands out for me is the place Chicago holds on the list. Did you see where it is? Why don't the gun-rights fanatics ever talk about New Orleans?