Gun Violence Epidemic in Latin America, Despite Strict Rules in Some Countriesdoi:urn:uuid:700a0bfc3c44c310VgnVCM100000d7c1a8c0RCRDViolent crime levels in some Latin American countries are at almost epidemic levels despite strict gun control laws in places like Mexico and Venez...
The United States has a gun violence epidemic, and it's not one shared by its peers. The nation that by one estimate has more guns than people has the highest rate of firearm deaths compared with other high-income countries. Mass shootings, an all-too-common occurrence in the U.S., ar...
were home to half the deaths the study reported. El Salvador had the highest gun death rate of all. Nearly 40 in every 100,000 Salvadorans died in gun violence. Singapore had the lowest rate, with 0.1 death per 100,000 individuals. ...
In South America,Ecuadorranks as the most dangerous country, driven by escalating gang violence. While the country had some of the lowest homicide rates in the region in 2019, drug gangs have increasingly gripped the country. In January, gang members stormed a news station, detonated bombs throu...
Additionally, tightening restrictions to ban gun purchases by people convicted of misdemeanors involving violence — as opposed to more serious felonies that would cause a rejection by the federal standard — had an even bigger 18 percent drop in the homicide rate. The researchers, however, caution...
Though Somalia has been plagued by violence for much of the last fifteen years, fighting intensified in 2006 as militias loyal to the country’s Islamic courts began expanding their territorial control [source] clan—one of the largest in Somalia, though it is actually comprised of many smaller...
Some countries ruled by military dictatorships, such asFrancisco Franco’s Spain orMohammad Zia-ul-Haq’s Pakistan, have reverted to civilian rule upon the death of thedictator. In other instances, military dictatorships have negotiated an end to their rule. Nigerian Gen.Olusegun Obasanjoturned...
While the shock of armed violence has grabbed public attention — the nation’s gun-homicide rate tripled between 2012 and 2022 — economic crime underlies gang activity and needs to be tackled as aggressively, he added. “That has been a strategic...
Their impression of China was echoed by commenting viewers. "As someone who has worked in China for five years, I can tell you clearly that China is the safest country I have ever been in," read one of the comments. In a world often disturbed by gun violence, ethnic clashes and even ...
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