Sentences with phrase «gun homicides»

It's much harder to stir a national debate about the persistent problem of gun homicides in the country's poorest urban neighborhoods, even though more children die in urban gun violence than in school shootings, according to University of Pennsylvania criminologist John Macdonald.

Connecticut's law requiring handgun purchasers to first pass a background check and obtain a license, for example, was followed by a 40 percent drop in gun homicides and a 15 percent reduction in gun suicides.

Fifty - two thousand Americans died of overdoses in 2015 — about four times as many as died from gun homicides and half again as many as died in car accidents.

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.

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.

A flurry of new Centers for Disease Control (CDC) data finds an alarming rise in drug overdose deaths and a second consecutive year of spiking gun homicide deaths.

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.

While the vast majority of firearms fatalities are still suicides, which make up about two - thirds of gun deaths, gun homicides ballooned from 9,600 in 2015 to 11,000 in 2016 due to increased gun violence in Chicago and certain other cities, according to the CDC.

He looked at how many gun homicides, suicides, and accidental shootings there were in comparison to «justifiable» homicides («the killing of a felon, during the commission of a felony, by a private citizen»), based on the FBI's 2012 data.

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.

It was an attempt to take the problem of gun homicide seriously, but it was deeply resented in rural Canada, and, as set up, was arguably an expensive and ineffective approach to the problem.

Heroin, oxycontin, and similar drugs are killing Americans at an unprecedented rate, now so high that opioids have surpassed gun homicides and car accidents among the leading causes of death.

Negligible effect on gun homicides, although neither Australia nor New Zealand have experience a mass shooting since then.

We average about 13,000 gun homicides annually.

The temporary exhibit, titled «Parkland 17,» also featured enlarged photos of the 14 students and three educators, along with facts about gun violence in America (13,000 annual gun homicides) and a phone booth labeled «Ring Your Rep,» with a direct line to Congress.

Shootings involving an individual indiscriminately killing people made up less than half of 1 % of gun homicides in 2016.

But some policies, like expanded screening, treatment of mental illness, and restrictions on gun sales to people who have been convicted of stalking, were still considered effective in reducing gun homicides.

In 2013, the United States led 22 countries in deaths from gun homicides (red).

When Connecticut passed a law requiring background checks on all handgun sales, they saw a 40 percent reduction in gun homicides.

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.

As a result, America 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.

But gun crime, particularly involving the use of handguns (which account for two - thirds of gun homicides), remains a serious problem — 32 % of all homicides are due to firearms.

Gee, with all these examples of how guns save lives, gun related homicides in the US should be a fraction of other countries where there are strict gun laws, I mean there only the bad guys have guns so they must be having a field day with their guns and the unarmed populace... oh, completely the opposite, strict gun law countries have a fraction of the gun homicides of the US... oh and a fraction of knife homicides as well, and other method homicides as well... oh well, forget it.

They will talk about gun deaths, gun homicides, and total suicides all together, switching as necessary to grab the right statistic.

They will often state this in such a way that someone might think that gun homicides are highest in states with the most guns.

The much - discussed spike in homicide rates between 2014 and 2016 is due almost entirely to gun homicides, an analysis of federal homicide data reveals.

Gun violence is plaguing the United States, killing approximately 33,000 people per year1, with 13,000 gun homicides each year2.

Compare the gun homicides between France and the US, adjust for population differences.

The authors found no corresponding increase in the number of gun homicides or suicides during the post — Sandy Hook shooting window, a finding that lines up with previous studies.

They also examined the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reports Supplemental Homicide Reports (SHR) to differentiate between handgun and long - gun homicides.

Maybe urban gun violence is just too predictable to hold our attention: It is extraordinarily concentrated — «hypersegregated» in Macdonald's phrase — with a handful of neighborhoods in the 10 largest cities accounting for 30 percent of all gun homicides nationwide.

More than 11,000 people in the United States are killed each year as a result of gun homicides, and the firearm homicide rate in the U.S. is seven times higher than in the average high - income country.

Americans of high - school age are 82 times more likely to die from a gun homicide than 15 - to 19 - year - olds in the rest of the developed world.

Schools are the sites of fewer than 3 percent of students» gun homicides; the other 97 percent occur somewhere other than school.

School time occupies around one - sixth of school - age children's total hours, but schools are the sites of fewer than 3 percent of students» gun homicides; the other 97 percent occur somewhere other than school.