Sentences with phrase «of gun homicides»

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.

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.

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.

In other words, even if you somehow completely eliminated mass shootings, America would still be an extreme outlier among developed countries in terms of both gun homicides and overall gun deaths.

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.

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.

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.

While gun violence and homicides have generally declined over the past couple of decades, America is still a big outlier among developed nations when it comes to both.

«Within the United States, a wide array of empirical evidence indicates that more guns in a community leads to more homicide,» David Hemenway, the Injury Control Research Center's director, wrote in Private Guns, Public Heaguns in a community leads to more homicide,» David Hemenway, the Injury Control Research Center's director, wrote in Private Guns, Public HeaGuns, Public Health.

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.

That policy not only cut the number of guns in circulation but, based on the research, may have cut the firearm homicide and suicide rates too.

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.

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.

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 report said that the evidence from such «U.S. cross-sectional studies is quite consistent... where there are higher levels of gun prevalence, homicide rates are substantially higher, primarily due to higher firearm homicide rates.»

If all countries are included in the plot, there is a negative correlation between gun ownership and rate of homicide.

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.

Consistent with this is a later European study of data from 21 nations in which «no significant correlations [of gun ownership levels] with total suicide or homicide rates were found.»

It found that studies of the United States or U.S. cities, states and regions «generally find a statistically significant gun prevalence - homicide association.»

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.

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.

Of the city's 30 homicides last year, 19 were gun - related.

We have very high rates of gun ownership in the North Country, and very low rates of homicide.

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

«Access to guns increases risk of suicide, homicide.»

Sen's proposal grew out of a study, published last year in Preventive Medicine, that found that states with more extensive background checks for gun buyers had fewer firearm homicide and suicide deaths between 1996 and 2005.

Furthermore, findings were similarly protective among important groups who account for a large proportion of deaths or who are particularly vulnerable, including young adult homicide victims, those who died in intimate partner violence - related homicides, and those who died from firearms - related homicides, including murders involving guns.

One of the paper's authors, Eric Fleegler, an emergency physician at Boston Children's Hospital, responds that, «when you look at firearm - related homicides, even controlling for firearm ownership, firearm - related homicides do decrease in states with more gun laws.»

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.»

Dr O'Brien said: «Coming from countries with strong gun control policies, and a 30-fold lower rate of gun - related homicides, we found the arguments for opposing gun control counterintuitive and somewhat illogical.

One major study published in JAMA in 2000 analyzed suicide and homicide data from 1985 to 1997 to evaluate the impact of the Brady Act, a 1994 federal law that requires background checks for people buying guns.

From 1982 to 2002, states with restraining order laws that bar offenders from buying guns had rates of intimate partner homicide that were 10 percent lower than in states lacking the laws, researchers reported in 2006 in Evaluation Review.It's a stark result, and suggests that tough laws can have big impacts.

In the letter to Biden, researchers say that violence involves guns more often in the United States than in Western democracies with similar rates of violence, leading to a higher U.S. homicide rate.

It turned out that the households in which homicides took place were more likely to contain a family member who abused alcohol or drugs and had a history of domestic violence — these factors contributed to the likelihood of homicide independent of the existence of guns.

In particular, his studies conclude that gun - owning households, when compared with gunless ones, are almost three times as likely to be the scene of a homicide and almost five times as likely to be the scene of a suicide.

Still, using homicide as the primary measurement of crime means researchers often ignore other forms of gun violence.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

It's an advertisement for gun fetishism, for taking the law into your own hands, for homicide as justice, for thinking of assault weapons as the world's coolest toys.

While your editor may not necessarily agree with all of their policy solutions (and note that much of their proposals ignore the consequences of the War on Drugs in perpetuating gun - related homicides), I also believe that our youth, our future adults and leaders, have a right and moral obligation to be engaged in the real 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.

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.

, Nehmad hand stitches the number of average yearly deaths from gun violence in America from 2014 — 2016 as the stripes of an American flag - 7 stripes comprised of black x's representing suicides, 6 stripes of red crosses representing homicides.