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Globally, nearly two-thirds of gun deaths in 2016 were the result of homicide, compared to just over a quarter for suicide and less than 10% for accidental injuries caused by firearms. In the same year, nearly nine in 10 of those killed were men and the highest number of deaths was among people aged 20-24 (for men in this age group, an ...
Some 40% of Americans say they live in a household with a gun, while 30% say they themselves own a gun, according to a Pew Research Center survey from last year. Higher levels of gun ownership are linked to higher gun-related deaths, as this chart from Mother Jones, an investigative reporting magazine, shows.
The number of gun deaths in the country fell by nearly 56% between 1996 and 2019. In Israel, which has a conscription army model similar to Switzerland’s, researchers also found a link between reduced access to military-issued firearms and a decline in suicides.
The first chart from Mother Jones, a US non-profit news outlet, shows gun ownership against gun violence in US states. Source: Vox/Mother Jones. Using 2013 data, the chart highlights that there is a correlation between gun ownership and gun deaths. Those states with higher levels of gun ownership do see more gun-related deaths.
There, gun rights are defended by the National Rifle Association, which spends heavily to lobby against all forms of control, arguing that weapons make the country safer. It often holds up the nation’s Second Amendment as a reason to protect ownership, saying “the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed”.
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. Sociologists who study the Nordic model have found that social cohesion between citizens and the government goes a long way toward ensuring a (mostly) peaceful society.
Understanding variations in the types of gun deaths could help inform policy makers and ultimately lower the number of fatalities. Ease of access to a firearm at a moment of hopelessness can influence the outcome, according to research from the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence , which said that gun-related suicides are more concentrated in ...
Shocked by a string of mass shootings, in which 100 people were killed, Australians turned on their gun culture. Amid polls showing up to 95% popular approval, two federally funded firearm buybacks and dozens of smaller, police-led gun amnesties sent more than a million firearms, or one-third of the country’s privately held guns, to the smelter.
The number of deaths from COVID-19 has passed one million in almost nine months. The WHO has warned that could double if countries don’t take greater action to tackle the pandemic. 56 million people died in 2017, with cardiovascular disease the leading cause of death globally.
And in the UK, a new first-of-its-kind report from the Femicide Census shows that a man kills a woman every three days in the country – a statistic unchanged across the 10 years studied. “Men’s violence against women is a leading cause of the premature death for women globally but research in the UK and Europe is limited and unconnected ...