Sentences with phrase «gun death rate»

Alaska, which received an «F» grade, had the nation's highest gun death rate — 23 per 100,000.

California, for example, ranks at the top of the list, receiving the only «A» grade for its strong gun laws and relatively low gun death rate — 43rd in the nation at 7.9 deaths per 100,000.

WASHINGTON, DC - Despite having one of the largest populations of any state in the union, New York still ranks near the bottom of the list when it comes to gun death rates.

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The US ranks 31st in the world in gun deaths per 100,000 people, with a rate of 3.85.

(These gun deaths are a big reason America has a much higher overall homicide rate than other developed nations.)

(These gun deaths are a big reason America has a much higher overall homicide rate, which includes non-gun deaths, than other developed nations.)

Why do we have the highest rate of poverty, the largest percentage of the population without health insurance, and the greatest number of gun deaths among any of the advanced industrial nations?

If the United States had the same homicide rate as Japan, our l966 death toll from guns would have been 32 instead of 6,855.

The article focuses on the death rate for Americans under 50, and reports that car accidents, gun violence and drug overdoses were the top three contributors.

New York has the nation's third - lowest rate of gun deaths among the 50 states, according to a new study that found a correlation between firearm safety laws and reduced gun deaths.

He was a leader in the effort to pass the NY SAFE Act, and has persistently supported the strong laws that have contributed to New York having one of the lowest rates of gun deaths in the country.

«The Hudson Valley, like other areas of New York, faces a rising suicide rate and too many heart - breaking gun deaths from domestic violence,» said Sarah Kozloff, Dutchess County Coordinator for New Yorkers Against Gun Violence.

«There is a strong correlation between sensible gun laws and low gun - death rates and that continues to be the case here in New York state,» countered Rebecca Fischer, executive director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence.

At that was the year Mayor Kathy Whitmire stopped a life saving gun safety class for preschoolers in a move that brought Houston's childhood accidental firearms death rate to among the highest in the United States.

The same analysis looked at the volume of scientific papers published for each cause of death and, relative to mortality rates, guns were the least researched.

Rather than curtailing gun deaths, there's moderate evidence that laws that let people claim self - defense even if they don't ty to retreat from a perceived threat lead to an uptick in homicide rates.

He had argued that the association between more laws and fewer deaths disappeared when the authors accounted for firearm ownership in a state — meaning that it is impossible to say whether the restrictive gun laws save lives by inhibiting gun ownership or whether laws are simply easier to enact in states in which ownership rates are already low.

Chapman's team also found that the rate of gun deaths dropped rapidly after 1996.

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.

Amnesty International, a global movement, promoting human rights, had called for a moratorium on the use of Taser guns since the death rate has been rising so precipitously.

The state has a comparably low rate for gun deaths and the lowest suicide rate in the United States.