The Simple Arithmetic of US Gun Homicides

For every 100 people in the U.S. there are about 90 civilian-owned firearms. [1]


More than 12,000 Americans are murdered with firearms every year. [2]


Let's call that 1,000 gun homicides a month
250 firearm murders each week
36 every day
three an hour


Guns don't kill people
People kill people...mainly
People clutching guns


Do the arithmetic.


[1] Small Arms Survey 2007
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Geneva, Switzerland.

[2] Table 2
National Vital Statistics Reports 

Volume 59, Number 2 December 9, 2010 

Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2008 

by Arialdi M. Miniño, MPH; Jiaquan Xu, M.D.; and Kenneth D. Kochanek, M.A. Division of Vital Statistics 

guns | an American haiku

ANARCHY IN THE (former) U.K. (colony)

So I go into the washroom at Tim Horton's in Vicotria, B.C. and take a seat (if that's not too much information — just taking care of business). Anyway, I notice an anarchist has despoiled the metal door of the enclosure with a silver Sharpie. He's drawn the stylized A in a circle and above it — brace yourself; this is graphic — the words have a nice poo.

Have a nice poo? No wonder we always feel so comfortable here — even anarchists wish us well. I'm sorry, but British Columbians are nicer than the rest of us.