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Miscellaneous
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Belgium is high here as well

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00046149.htm

interestingly the UK is very low (these are child deaths by gun I think) so something else must be going on there.

>Well, the source for the wikipedia is the wikipedia of course !
>
>Kidding - but Belgium's cannot be higher that the US
>_______
>
>>How do we know that the BBC is wrong and wikipedia is correct? The source for the BBC article is Royal Armouries, what is the source for the wikipedia numbers?
>>
>>
>>>>Ok, I know why the U.S. is high, but Belgium? What's up with that? (The chart is at the very end of the article)
>>>>
>>>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6937537.stm
>>>
>>>Someone must have sent a false letter
>>>
>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homicide_rate#2000s
>>>
>>>year 2002
>>>- USA : 5.6 (about same as your link)
>>>- Belgium : 1.5 (your link : 7.06)
>>>
>>>And more interesting: since 2002, there haven't been any ! (according to the chart this is)
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