Sentences with phrase «u.s. gun deaths»

This is no small thing: Of the more than 36,000 U.S. gun deaths each year, two - thirds are suicides.

Not exact matches

And yet, as painful as such events are, and as much as they seem to increasingly define America's uniquely violent profile among developed nations, they account for just 1 - 2 % of all gun - related deaths in the U.S. «We lose upwards of 90 people a day on average to firearm violence, to suicide and homicide,» says Wintemute.

But further analysis released by the public health agency Friday highlight two alarming trends for U.S. mortality: significant rises in gun and, especially, drug overdose deaths (with the latter driven by the ongoing opioid crisis in America).

It's estimated this year that there will be roughly 10,000 gun murders in the U.S. Compare that to roughly 160 gun deaths in Canada every year.

The Rochester brick; the threats to lynch the U.S. Attorney General; the voter intimidation; the guns brought to health care informational meetings; the death threats against Comptroller DiNapoli after he was first appointed; etc..)

ALBANY — The state's leading gun rights organization has halted its lawsuit looking to strike down Gov. Cuomo's 2013 gun control law because of the recent death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

He then turned to the U.S. Supreme Court, which now has only eight justices after the death of Antonin Scalia, and said electing a Democrat this year could lead to decisions that would roll back gun rights and religious liberties.

Compared with other leading causes of death, research into gun violence is among the least funded, an analysis of U.S. mortality data and federal funding from 2004 to 2015 reveals.

«These data are based on death certificates and represent a good count of gun deaths across the U.S. from all causes — suicide, homicide, and unintentional gun deaths,» says Charles Branas, an epidemiologist at the University of Pennsylvania, who used them to compare urban versus rural gun deaths.

«While science can teach us a lot about gun policy, research in this area is generally far behind where it is for most other causes of death that claim similar numbers of lives in the U.S. each year,» Morral said.

The intense discussion stems from the increase in gun - related deaths and mass shootings that have occurred throughout the U.S. in the past decade.

Artist Statement «According to Everytown for Gun Safety, the U.S. has one of the highest reported rates of unintentional child gun deaths in the world.

Last Friday, just days after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in McDonald v. Chicago, the city, anticipating that the ruling was the death knell for Chicago's restrictive handgun ordinance, enacted a new ordinance that, while still strict, was less akin to an «outright ban» on gun possession.

As Marcia Coyle explains in the National Law Journal: «Following a blockbuster term involving guns, Guantanamo Bay and the death penalty, the U.S. Supreme Court opens its doors to a new term with less drama, more cases initially and many challenges having potentially major implications for business, the environment, injured consumers, job bias victims and law enforcement.»