Per capita, Illinois moves down to seventh. If there is any good news to come from these data, it is that for the first time in four years, the number of mass shootings in Chicago is falling. By this time last year, we had seen 32 shootings with four or...
The United States contains 5% of the world’s population. However, our nation covers 35-50% of the world’s civilian-owned guns, is ranked first for firearms per capita, and holds the highest homicide rate among all other nations of wealth and democracy at 88.5% (Masters). Such high rate...
The city recorded 348 homicides last year, its fifth consecutive year with more than 300 murders and the most violent year ever on a per-capita basis. City council president Brandon Scott, a Democrat running for mayor, issued a statement Sunday condemning the violence. “A day that should ha...
The Falkland Islands – a British territory in the southwest Atlantic Ocean, claimed by Argentina and the subject of a 1982 war – is home to the world’s second-largest stash of civilian guns per capita. But with an estimated 62 guns per 100 people, its gun ownership rate is almost half...
And it’s not like guys aren’t killing bunches of people overseas anyway. Compared to plenty of other countries, pipe bombings or vehicular massacres are relatively rare here (Oklahoma City, The Boston Marathon and Charlottesville notwithstanding). When there’s a twisted, evil motive, or “re...
(or rise) dramatically.For instance, if Blacks commit only 10% of the murders, then we would expect that they would be 5-15% of those killed by the police. Or if our gun ownership and murder rates collapse to match Germany's rates, then we could expect our per capita police killings...
Serbia is estimated to be among the top countries in Europe in registered weapons per capita, and many more are held illegally. Authorities launched the gun crackdown after a 13-year-old boy on May 3 took his father’s gun and opened fire on his fellow-students in an elementary school in...
This means USA on per Capita basis has Murder rates that are 10,000% WORSE than UK. Or are you Trump trolls too Stupid to read even your own URLs!!! PunchMan 7 years 4 months ago Moreover, you Republican Trump slime bag True Enemy within, the article you posted does not list even...