The U.S. population is growing, but researchers say the rate of gun deaths has been getting worse, too. America’s gun-related homicide and suicide rates both rose 8% last year, each hitting levels not seen since the early 1990s. In the new study, the researchers examined trends in...
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Phillips told Xinhua that 34,000 Americans die each year from gun deaths, while the number in all European Union countries combined is only 6,700. "The more guns, the more gun deaths; the more gun control, the fewer gun deaths ... it's pretty simple stuff," Phillips said. "It's to...
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...
More than half of all U.S. gun deaths are suicides — and suicide by gun is even more frequent among veterans. Oct 8, 2024 Judge halts New Mexico governor's gun order A federal judge temporarily halted a 30-day order from New Mexico's governor suspending the right to carry firearms in...
gun-related deaths in the United States in one week may exceed those in the whole Western Europe in one year. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the firearm homicide rate in the United States reached its highest level since 1994. According to a survey by the Giffords Law Center, 32 of the cou...
Nearly 49,000 people died because ofgun violencein 2021, the highest number of gun-related deaths ever recorded, and about 85,000 nonfatal shootings occurred. During the same year, the overall suicide rate increased by 44 percent among the Black population. However, few studies until now have...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recorded 39,773 American gun deaths in 2017 and more than 1,200 children were killed with guns last year. As mass murders increase, so do politically-active organizations across the country demanding modest gun control. ...
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