the nation started to ask what social factors may have contributed to the mass shootings. Serbia has one of the highest number of firearms per capita in the world, and guns are frequently fired into the air to mark special occasions.
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...
Not only does the USA have far more guns per capita than anyone else, but it's also a remarkably murderous country when compared to other high-income countries. When you examine the intentional per capitahomicide rateof 230 countries/territories, the USA is just below the global median, which...
However, when we adjust for population, we find that the country with the second-highest rate of school shootings was Estonia with 7.6 shooting per 10 million people, a rate only 1.2 times lower than that of the United States.In the United States, 9.1 school shootings took place for every...
According to Galea, part of the mass shooting equation is just the sheer number of firearms in the United States, where Americans own more guns per capita than any other nation in the world. "The widespread availability of guns is what creates as a society the opportunity for these kind of...
Make no mistake. I completely understand that the United States has far more guns than any other country on earth. And I also get that acquiring them is too easy and the regulations in place are riddled with loopholes and potential cracks to slip through (e.g. Parkland, FL and Sutherland...
(KEE)andurbanicity—were associatedwithschoolshootingsduringthisperiod. MethodsWesearchedLexisNexis,anewspaperand broadcastmediadatabasesforschoolshootingincidents from1January2013to31December2015.Presenceof BClawswasextractedfromlegalinformationin LexisNexis.State-levelcovariatesofpercapitaMHE (2013),KEE(2013)and...
As long as people of this country are afraid to take a gamble and start wising up, we are stuck. sarah 7 years 2 months ago Well then why aren't American People out on the Street by the 10s of Millions demanding real change in contrast to Wall Street tools of Clinton/Trump? Why ...
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 that of the US. Yemen – a country in the throes of a seven-year conflict – has the third-highest gun ownership rate at 53 guns per 100 ...