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
more than 11,750 people had died in gun-related incidents in the United States this year. And there have been 146 shootings in the U.S., with all of them resulting in four or more deaths. About 90 percent of respondents believe that the proliferation of gun violence in the United States...
each year. Gun control advocates argue that because sales at gun shows are much less regulated than other salesDuggan, MarkHjalmarsson, RandiJacob, BrianSocial Science Electronic PublishingDuggan M, Hjalmarsson R, Jacob BA. The effect of gun shows on gun-related deaths: Evidence from California ...
As of Dec. 7, at least 40,167 people have died from gun violence in the U.S. this year, according to theGun Violence Archive– which is an average of almost 118 deaths each day. Of those who died, 1,306 were teens and 276 were children. ...
As the debate over how to reduce gun violence continues in the wake of last month's deadlyParkland, Florida school shooting, new research is shedding light on the impact state laws may have on the number of gun-related deaths -- and what happens when gun control laws in one state are ei...
shootings and various other methods of gun violence, tens of thousands of people die every year. These gun-related deaths primarily originate from murder and children accidentally shooting themselves. Although those in favor of gun control tend to believe that guns should be terminated completely, th...
in perspective. Gun-related crime is still a very small element in our crime statistics. Last year there were about 4,000 armed incidents in England and Wales and 42 people died from gunshot wounds. In the US about 30,000 people each year are killed by guns – and another 90,000 ...
The majority of the 40,000 firearm-related deaths each year aren't homicides or accidental shootings like the violence seen in Philadelphia this week. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, two-thirds are suicides. With millions of new guns added to U.S. households in re...
In 2013, 33,169 deaths came from guns in America -- compared with 4,000 in all of Europe -- with an overall population twice the size of the United States. In Britain, with strict gun-control laws, there were 58 gun-related homicides in 2011. ...
The most recent figures show that there are approximately 38,000 gun related deaths in the US each year. With other research suggesting that having a gun in the home is related to a 2.7 and 4.8 fold increase in the risk of a member of that home dying from homicide or suicide, ...