Texas and intentionally drove his pickup truck into a crowd of people before exchanging gunfire with police in the early morning hours of New Year's Day. The FBI identified the suspect as 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen from Texas and an Army veteran. Officials...
"More than two-thirds of the homicides in the U.S. arefirearm homicidesand studies have suggested that the non-gun homicide rate in the U.S. may be high because the gun homicide rate is high," Grinshteyn said. "For example, offenders take into account the threat posed by their advers...
Many of us have heard many times, “Guns don’t kill people on their own, it takes a person to pull the trigger.” Even if people find this statement to be true, guns are an issue that needs to be addressed. A gun is simply an easy tool that people can use and manipulate with ...
In my neighborhood, there’s a lot of gang violence. Every night, we hear gunshots from a couple streets away, sometimes they are followed by police sirens, and sometimes they aren’t. Gangs are involved with drugs, guns, crime, and violence. Many gangs are associated with robbery, drug...
of intimate partner gun homicides occur in situations where the man had been physically abusive toward the woman, and that a female victim isfive timeslikelier to die at the hands of her abuser if the abuser owns a gun. And even if he doesn’t shoot his partner, an abuser with a gun...
According to the Small Arms Survey, El Salvador is currently home to the most gun-related murders in the world (excluding active war-zones) with guns killing more than 90 people for every 100,000 of population. From 2010-2015, Honduras saw the highest averages of gun-related homicides, wit...
“This is an emergency.” That’s what the title card flashing across the opening credits ofSpike Lee’s new film “Chi-Raq” tells the audience before detailing how, since 2001, there have been more gun-related homicides in the city of Chicago than American casualties in the Iraq and Afg...
Of the 13,650 gun-related homicides in 2020, nearly 60% of them involved a handgun, according to FBI data. By comparison, only 3% of these deaths involved a rifle and 1% involved a shotgun. (The remaining 36% of homicides were classified as "type not stated.") In this Oct. 4, ...
It’s important to remember that gun homicides rose considerably during his presidency. So I think we expect this issue to play a major role in getting people out to vote this fall. And I would say that, for gun safety, winning the election this year—as well as elections across the ...
Though laws vary across the U.S., autopsies may be required in certain types of deaths, such as suspected suicides or homicides, when a child suddenly dies despite appearing to be in good health, or when there's concern that a person may have died of a cause that represents a threat to...