Sentences with phrase «of gun deaths»

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?

It's the extent of gun deaths, of course.

Funding for research on gun violence is 1.6 percent of what would be expected, given the number of gun deaths.

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.

Louisiana and Alaska, for example, led the country in the number of gun deaths per 100,000 people in 2014.

Over half of gun deaths among teens (15 to 19) are suicides.

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.

But if America wants to get to the levels of gun deaths that its European peers report, it will likely need to go much, much further on guns in particular.

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.

It's only getting worse,» Cuomo said, roughly referring to the number of gun deaths nationwide.

Males made up the bulk of gun deaths.

«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.

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

I believe decreasing the likelihood of gun deaths happening at my school will help.»

Compared with the US, Norway has about one - third of the number of guns per 100 civilians — and about one - tenth of the rate of gun deaths per 100,000 people.

Though Chicago has a higher number of gun deaths than any other major city, the number of deaths per capita is notably lower than in other cities because of Chicago's large population.

Japan, for example, has very few guns and very few gun deaths — just 11 in the entire country during 2008 — but on the other hand, there's Switzerland, which has almost as many guns per capita as the U.S. but a very low number of gun deaths.

If the fundamental problem is that America has far too many guns, then policies need to cut the number of guns in circulation right now to seriously reduce the number of gun deaths.

The 24 - hour news cycle keeps us on the brink of hysteria with tales of terrorists, pizza parlor pedophilia rings, the imminent imposition of Sharia law on our nation, ISIS, climate change, and America's horrific number of gun deaths.