which is derived from death certificates from all 50 states and the District of Columbia and is widely considered the most comprehensive estimate of firearm deaths. In keeping with the CDC’s practice, deaths of non-U.S. residents that take place in the U.S. (about 50 per year) are excl...
In 2022, injuries linked to guns overtook motor vehicle deaths as the leading cause of deaths among Americans ages 1 to 19, the team found. Firearms were the leading cause of death for kids in 25 states by 2022. While deaths to children under the age of 10 did rise, ...
The numbing parade of mass shootings in the USA—like the one in Las Vegas that left at least 59 people dead—has often obscured the gun debate's open secret: horrific, attention-grabbing, mass shootings represent only a small minority of gun deaths each year. Two-thirds of all gun ...
Total Suicide Deaths Total (firearm + nonfirearm) suicide annual death rates had been increasing by a mean of 1.0% per year before the introduction of the gun control laws, for an overall mean of 12.3 (95% CI, 11.9-12.7) per 100 000 population, but declined by a mean of 1.5%...
While shootings are far less common in Europe, they do still take place occasionally. According to the latest available data by theInstitute for Health Metrics and Evaluation(IHME), Albania saw the worst rates of gun violence in 2019 with 1.39 gun violence deaths that year per 100,000 people...
A new study shows that guns are responsible for about 250,000 deaths worldwide every year. It also found that the United States is among just six countries in which half of all gun deaths take place. The findings are from one of the most wide-reaching investigations of gun deaths to date...
The homicide rate for individuals age 10 to 14 was about 1.4 deaths per 100,000 in 2021, whereas older teenagers in their 20s had a rate of approximately 18 per 100,000. Homicide deaths became more common than suicide deaths among 15-to-19-year-olds, while suicide was more common in th...
— The death of 20-year-old James Madison University student Marisa Curlen has stunned a New York community who has lost three students from its 2013 class. Curlen was found dead in her dorm room in Harrisonburg early Friday morning. An autopsy was pending on Friday night, but the cause ...
The researchers suggest their findings indicate that if the U.S. were to implement a nationwide waiting period for gun purchases, the country as a whole could reduce annual gun deaths by approximately 1,700 a year. More information:Michael Luca et al. Handgun waiting periods reduce gun deaths...
Domestic violence rose last year. It was more widespread geographically, more pronounced in populous areas and had more internal types of violence associated with it.