Sentences with phrase «of gun murders»

In fact known criminals account for only a small percentage of gun murders and injuries.

It's on trying to take a big bite out of America's massive spate of gun murders, gun suicides, and accidental shootings through extremely robust gun regulation measures.

If the rate of gun ownership is a determinant of the gun murder rate, how does one explain the gun ownership rates in Mexico (15 guns / 100 and 9.97 murders / 100k) and Jamaica (8.1 guns / 100 and 39.4 murders / 100K) and the very high gun murder rates?

Argumentative Essay on Gun Ownership According to statistical data of gun murder all over the world taken from the Oscar - won documentary «Bowling for Columbine» by the writers from essays help service, America has approximately 11, 127 gun accidents while Canada has nearly 165 of them.

Not exact matches

Too many have been senselessly murdered as a result of guns being in the wrong hands.

In the wake of the murder of 49 people and the wounding of 53 in Orlando last weekend, Senate Democrats have won the chance to vote Monday on two narrow gun control proposals they sponsored: expanding background checks and barring terror suspects from buying guns.

This opinion piece from The New York Times editorial board — part of a larger series on gun violence that also looks at the horrific statistics on the murder of women in the U.S. — focuses on the «boyfriend loophole,» something that may be familiar to regular Broadsheet readers.

An Air Force review has found that the branch failed to report «several dozen» service members found guilty of violent offenses to the federal gun background check database, with representatives of the service telling the New York Times that the reporting failure that allowed disgraced airman Devin Patrick Kelley to purchase the firearms he used to murder 26 parishioners in a Sutherland Springs, Texas, church on Nov. 5 «was not an isolated incident.»

You can try to eliminate all knifes and guns but it doesn't solve the problem of murder.

To celebrate what would be her and John Lennon's 44th wedding anniversary last week, Yoko Ono tweeted out a photo of the murdered singer's bloodied glasses to promote gun control laws.

The town hall, moderated by Jake Tapper, gave survivors and family of the murdered victims the chance to confront lawmakers on the issue of school safety, gun control, and mental health.

Last week: The tectonic shift in the conversation about gun regulations, school safety and mental health since the murder of 17 faculty and students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is nothing less than amazing when, in defiance of the NRA, it produced the first successful gun control measure in Florida in over two decades!

Dick's Sporting Goods revealed that it sold a gun to the shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz, who has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder.

After I thought about it, I realized the question of whether reducing guns in a society will lead to fewer murders is a testable hypothesis.

We are not only doing this for the 17 students and faculty murdered but also for the youth whose innocence has yet to be shattered by the pervasive terror of gun violence.

Survivors, students, and parents of victims of past school shootings — including the most recent massacre in Parkland, Florida, where a gunman murdered 17 — gathered at the White House to share their stories and ideas for protecting students from gun violence.

«For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders», not guns.

Since the murder of her family members, Jeanne Bishop has been an advocate for gun violence prevention.

Since the murder of her family members, Jeanne Bishop has been an advocate for gun violence prevention, forgiveness and abolition of the death penalty.

We have DNA databases, AFIS for fingerprints, but nothing for the cause of most murders in the US — guns.

He lives in a town with some of the strictest gun control laws in the US and yet is the Murder capital of the US.

(On that occasion, after only murdering a sheet of paper, I vowed to never touch a gun again, it felt so wrong in my hand.)

There are 260 million americans and a bill of rights and many millions of gun owners who have nothing to do with mass shooting yet you want to make the difference by banning something that affects 3 million plus law abiding citizens... to stop.008 % of murders???

If we have a video of a murder, and a gunshot victim with wounds that match the video, and have recovered both the bullets and the gun with matching ballistics then, even if we were not there, could we say we have reasonable evidence to believe that a man was shot and killed based on what we do have?

Guns are very effective deterrents, and given that 99.9996 % of gun owners don't go out and kill anyone with guns (that's, 35000 murders (assuming one murder per gun owner, which is a generous number, divided by 100m gun owners, which own about 270m guns in the US), it's mind numbingly stupid to argue that GUNS are the problem, or that even legal gun owners are the problem, when you're more likely to get run over by a car (and 13 times more likely to just die of cancGuns are very effective deterrents, and given that 99.9996 % of gun owners don't go out and kill anyone with guns (that's, 35000 murders (assuming one murder per gun owner, which is a generous number, divided by 100m gun owners, which own about 270m guns in the US), it's mind numbingly stupid to argue that GUNS are the problem, or that even legal gun owners are the problem, when you're more likely to get run over by a car (and 13 times more likely to just die of cancGuns are very effective deterrents, and given that 99.9996 % of gun owners don't go out and kill anyone with guns (that's, 35000 murders (assuming one murder per gun owner, which is a generous number, divided by 100m gun owners, which own about 270m guns in the US), it's mind numbingly stupid to argue that GUNS are the problem, or that even legal gun owners are the problem, when you're more likely to get run over by a car (and 13 times more likely to just die of cancguns (that's, 35000 murders (assuming one murder per gun owner, which is a generous number, divided by 100m gun owners, which own about 270m guns in the US), it's mind numbingly stupid to argue that GUNS are the problem, or that even legal gun owners are the problem, when you're more likely to get run over by a car (and 13 times more likely to just die of cancguns (that's, 35000 murders (assuming one murder per gun owner, which is a generous number, divided by 100m gun owners, which own about 270m guns in the US), it's mind numbingly stupid to argue that GUNS are the problem, or that even legal gun owners are the problem, when you're more likely to get run over by a car (and 13 times more likely to just die of cancguns in the US), it's mind numbingly stupid to argue that GUNS are the problem, or that even legal gun owners are the problem, when you're more likely to get run over by a car (and 13 times more likely to just die of cancguns in the US), it's mind numbingly stupid to argue that GUNS are the problem, or that even legal gun owners are the problem, when you're more likely to get run over by a car (and 13 times more likely to just die of cancGUNS are the problem, or that even legal gun owners are the problem, when you're more likely to get run over by a car (and 13 times more likely to just die of cancGUNS are the problem, or that even legal gun owners are the problem, when you're more likely to get run over by a car (and 13 times more likely to just die of cancer).

Soon after her murder, reports emerged about how one of the shooters had found Bernall under a table, pointed a gun at her head and asked, «Do you believe in God?»

As usual, the gun - control campaign is focusing almost entirely on the handgun, unquestioned villain in thousands of murders and accidental deaths annually.

How about the Manmasi National Christian Army and the National Liberation Front of Tripura, who force Hindus to convert at gun point and are known to encourage the murder of Hindu children?

And so the list goes, with the actual numbers changing somewhat from year to year, yet the fact that more people are killed with blunt objects each year remains constant.For example, in 2011, there was 323 murders committed with a rifle but 496 murders committed with hammers and clubs.While the FBI makes is clear that some of the «murder by rifle» numbers could be adjusted up slightly, when you take into account murders with non-categorized types of guns, it does not change the fact that their annual reports consistently show more lives are taken each year with these blunt objects than are taken with Feinstein's dreaded rifle.Another interesting fact: According to the FBI, nearly twice as many people are killed by hands and fists each year than are killed by murderers who use rifles.

There are so many 9 - mm guns and so many shootings in New Orleans — 365 people were murdered there in 1995 — that no one thought to match the markings of spent casings from Bannister's Ruger with those found on Morrison Road three months earlier.

In May, while the gun was being held as evidence for the trials of Trackling and Bannister (the girl lived, and the assailants would be found guilty of attempted murder and attempted armed robbery in July 1996), Trackling did something not unusual for a young prisoner.

Hernandez was charged with six different counts Wednesday afternoon, five different gun charges and one count of first degree murder.

educate your people, get them out of this dangerous bigotry and ignorance and have them open their eyes to the world... get rid of guns and I swear you wont have these mass murders on a weekly basis....

Former New England Patriots tight end, Aaron Hernandez, was charged with first degree murder for the murder of 27 - year - old Odin Lloyd, five gun - related charges,...

The full gun crime statistics for 2007 will be published at the end of the month and will include some of the 27 teenagers murdered by guns or knives in London last year.

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.

«It's interesting that so many of the people who end up committing mass murders end up being Democrats,» she said during a discussion about a push for gun control following a shooting at a Florida high school that killed 17 people.

Guatemala has a gun ownership rate of 13.1 / 100 and a murder rate of 34 / 100k.

«He doesn't remember the gun going off,» said attorney Fernando Oliver in 2001, during the trial of Agustin Garcia, who pleaded innocent to the murder charges.

Steven Dym, the Westchester real - estate executive who murdered his wife and kid at their mansion before turning the gun on himself, was accused in court papers of being a crooked property manager.

PHOTO ESSAY BY WILLIAM ALATRISTE In a June 15 vigil outside the Bronx County Courthouse on the Grand Concourse overlooking Joyce Kilmer Park, members of the LGBT community and allies gathered to commemorate the murder four nights earlier of 49 patrons of the Pulse nightclub, who were gunned down by Omar Mateen, who also -LSB-...]

'» Indeed: the J'Ouvert murders are symptomatic of the high rate of gun violence in Brooklyn's African American and West Indian neighborhoods.

The report compares last year's crime figures in seven areas - murder, rape, assault, burglary, robbery, car crime and gun crime - and has come up with an easily understandable league table of Britain's cities.

Days later, a New York Times editorial called for stronger gun control laws in response to the murders, pointing to the ease with which Ferguson obtained a handgun in California, which had one of the country's stricter gun laws at the time.

Sponsors of the legislation say they aren't opposed to all parts of the SAFE Act, including provisions related to gun ownership by those who have been convicted of a violent crime and increased penalties for those who murder a first responder — the so - called Webster provision.

Officials of the pro-gun lobby, which for years has stopped congressional gun control measures cold, blamed the national propensity for violence — the Tucsons, the Auroras and the Newtown tragedy on the appetite for violent video games and music videos that venerate gun play and murder.

«This has become manifest in the plot to rope members of «nPDP», especially those in the National Assembly, into gun - running and murder charges just because they came out to voice their opposition to the APC government's constitutional violations and executive brigandage in the running of our nation's affairs.»

«As long as we allow dangerous and deranged people to buy guns, the promise of a more perfect union will remain empty for the thousands of Americans who are murdered with guns every year,» he told the applauding crowd.

General News of Wednesday, 16 May 2018 Source: www.ghanaweb.com play videoMartin Kyere is the lone survivor from Gambia Massacre Memories of the gruesome murder of some 44 Ghanaians in The Gambia are still fresh on the mind of Martin Kyere, the lone survivor who narrowly escaped with his life amidst the sporadic guns fired at him as he took to his heels.

BY DUNCAN OSBRNE What was billed as a vigil for the people murdered by a gunman in an Orlando nightclub quickly became a rally in support of gun control legislation as elected officials, the head of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence (NYAGV), and even a trauma surgeon called for tougher federal laws to control -LSB-...]