Dead Bodies Captured By Brazil’s Google Street View Debut

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5 points·charlief··4 comments

Holly shit, Brazil has a extremely high homicide rate:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homicide_r...

I knew it'd be high, but I didn't think it was going to be 5 times the homicide rate in the USA (with all those gun nuts). Time to move out here (I live in Brazil).

Do you have any data that shows the rate of homicides committed by "gun nuts" is higher than for other people? There are a lot of people in the US who like guns, but as far as I can tell gun hobbyists are much less likely to kill people than the general populace.

I didn't say that the homicides are committed by "gun nuts". Among the dangers of having a gun is that if you're robbed, you may be killed because you have a gun (you don't even need to react) or have your gun stolen and be used in a homicide. Not to mention accidents involving guns.

"The Victim Survey (NCVS) estimates that there were 341,000 incidents of firearm theft from private citizens annually from 1987-92.":

http://www.firearmsid.com/Feature%20Articles/0900GUIC/Guns%2...

I just wonder what is the criteria for the pictures: it's obvious that there aren't real people manually selecting the pictures, but couldn't the driver flag a location as "inapropriate" since he was right there when it hapenned?

So yeah, I still expect to see a lot of bizarre pictures around.

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