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 review, the Gun Violence Archive records incidents of gun violence and gun crime. According to their methodology page, they “utilize automated queries, manual research through over 2,500 sources from local and state police, media, data aggregates, government, and other sources daily. Each in...
Paruk, JenniferNew Jersey Gun Violence Research Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, USASemenza, DanielDepartment of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, Camden, USASpringer USJournal of Urban Health
In the US, gun violence has become a completely politicized issue. To champion gun rights or to support gun control has become a label that distinguishes the identity of Republicans and Democrats. Any weakening of the position on this issue will likely face resentment and attacks from within the...
However, even though the problem is insoluble in the US, to pretend that they do listen to public concerns about gun violence and care about Americans, the Republicans and Democrats have found a way to fool the American people. While refusing to make concessions on key issues, such as the ...
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While gun violence has for years been among the leading causes of death for US children, the COVID-19 pandemic sent itskyrocketing to the top causewhile widening racial disparities. In the years before the pandemic—from 2015 to early 2020—Black children in four major US cities were...
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It is then unsurprising that the US has more deaths from gun violence than any other developed country per capita. The rate in the US is eight times greater than in Canada, which has the seventh highest rate of gun ownership in the world; 22 times higher than in the European Union and ...
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