The picture is different for male homicide, total rates of assault, and generally, .]or robbery (committed with or without a gun), With the exception of robbery, most correlations are similar or stronger when all types of guns are considered, rather than handguns alone. Interestingly, no ...
But studies suggest that stricter state gun laws do make a difference. In a study published in the May 13, 2013, issue of JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers concluded that states with the most firearm legislation have the lowest rates of firearm-associated deaths, as well as the lowest rates...
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...
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...
As the scale of the problems grow, banks are introducing measures that will allow additional layers of security, including requiring approval from a trusted second party for large transfers. But for the most part, they’re voluntary, with users needing...
Most of these, but not all, were for robbery with violence. In this Nov 1952 illustrated news item, clearly regarded as somewhat sensational for British Columbia by that time, it is reported that a large gang of young men in their teens and twenties (pictured) were sentenced to jail...
s School of the Americas. One of the mostnotoriousmilitary dictators to emerge from this climate was Gen.Augusto Pinochet, who became president of Chile after a military coup in September 1973. With training and funding from the U.S.Central Intelligence Agency, the Chilean armed forces overthrew...
In May 2006, the country's worst outbreak of violence in 10 years began, with Islamist militias, called the Somali Islamic Courts [source] WARNING: Somalia is most emphatically NOT a tourist destination and not safe for independent travel or sightseeing. Those visiting for business, research, ...
The researchers also found that compared to people in the other high-income nations, Americans are seven times more likely to die from violence and six times more likely to be accidentally killed with a gun. "More than two-thirds of the homicides in the U.S. are firearm homicides and stud...
“It leads to violence.” Hits: 58 Respiratory Diseases ILI Most of the region is reporting low levels of influenza-like illness, with a few exceptions. There’s a general pattern of decreasing activity as you move north, with the lowest levels in northern New England. ...