Sentences with phrase «by gun homicide»

At the same time, more than 36,000 people died of gunshot wounds in the U.S. in 2015, and Americans are 25 times more likely to die by gun homicide than residents of other wealthy countries.

Not exact matches

The Swiss have often been touted by the National Rifle Association (NRA) as a standout example of a country with little gun control and a homicide rate near zero.

But what questions have been researched by private institutions like the Harvard Injury Control Research Center show a clear connection between gun ownership, gun availability, homicides, and violent death.

The US has nearly six times the gun homicide rate of Canada, more than seven times that of Sweden, and nearly 16 times that of Germany, according to United Nations data compiled by the Guardian.

It's difficult to know for sure how much of the drop in homicides and suicides was caused specifically by the gun buyback program.

It's difficult to know for sure how much of the drop in homicides and suicides was caused specifically by the gun buyback program and other legal changes.

It's difficult to separate these changes from long - term trends (especially since gun homicides have generally been on the decline for decades now), but a review of the evidence by RAND linked milder gun control measures, including background checks, to reduced injuries and deaths — and that means these measures likely saved lives.

In 2013, our gun - related deaths included 21,175 suicides, 11,208 homicides and 505 deaths caused by accidental discharge.

In yet another scatterplot analysis of correlation between gun ownership and murder rate by country (again, using Wikipedia as the source), the author find a negative correlation between gun ownership and rate of homicide.

Most disturbing is a 20 % increase in homicides by gun, accompanied by claims that overall shootings are down.

March 3, 2015 (readMedia)-- New statistics released by the NYPD showing an increase in homicides and shootings are more proof that gun control and the so - called SAFE Act has not made New York City any safer.

Advocates of gun rights claim non-comparability for other reasons, or argue for comparability in other areas (e.g. compare homicide rate by blunt instrument, which are nearly universally available) for explanatory power.

The presence of a gun in a domestic violence situation increases the risk of homicide by 500 percent, independent of other risk factors for homicide, according to an American Journal of Public Health report.

Another statistic that Shermer notes is that in «states that prohibit gun ownership by men who have received a domestic violence restraining order, gun - caused homicides of intimate female partners have been reduced by 25 percent.»

Similar analyses by Webster in 2014 and 2015 indicated a 40 percent reduction in Connecticut gun homicide numbers, and an 18 percent rise in Missouri.

There is moderate evidence to support conclusions that background checks reduce firearm suicides and firearm homicides, and that laws prohibiting the purchase or possession of guns by individuals with some forms of mental illness reduce violent crime, according to the analysis.

Gun violence restraining orders (GVROs) are a promising strategy for reducing firearm homicide and suicide in the United States, and should be considered by states seeking to address gun violence, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of California, Davis, argue in a new report.

Three of four program sites saw significant reductions in gun violence; homicides dropped by 56 percent in one neighborhood and by 26 percent in another.

Studies demonstrate that, unsurprisingly, people are far more likely to be shot, either by suicide, accident, or homicide, when more guns are available.

Works by 14 artists touch upon a host of issues surrounding access to and use of firearms, examining and representing the role that guns continue to play in our national mythologies and pathologies, suicide and homicide rates, domestic violence, and mass media.

Charles Mirsky, a junior at Spanish River High School, cited a National Academy of Sciences study that found waiting periods reduced gun homicides by 17 percent.