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Sunday, May 15th, 2011

CDC: U.S. Murder Toll From Guns Highest in Big Cities

Author:     SEVEN REINBERG
Source:     USA TODAY
Publication Date:     14-May-11
 Link: CDC: U.S. Murder Toll From Guns Highest in Big Cities
Stephan:   This report tells us two things: From Ayn Rand's view -- that is to say the Far Right end of the spectrum -- this would be called population control; a war amongst the proles. But notice also the fact that gun suicides are lower in urban areas, than the nation as a whole. The report is correct in my opinion that the focus should be on alternatives. As of 2009, the United States had a population of 307 million people. Based on production data from firearm manufacturers, as of 2010, there are roughly 300 million firearms owned by civilians in the United States. We are way past gun control. The real problem is poverty and alienation. We are eating our young with reductions in child care, degradation of education, etc.; and they are eating each other. To this must also be added the largest incarceration rate and population in the world. This is a social cancer devouring our liver.

Large metropolitan areas suffer about two-thirds of all firearm homicides in the United States, with inner cities most affected, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

‘The central cities really bear the burden of firearm homicides,’ said Linda L. Dahlberg, the associate director for science in CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention, noting that the gun murder rate was highest among male children and teens.

These findings ‘speak to the importance of addressing youth if we really want to do something about the gun violence problem,’ Dahlberg said.

According to the CDC, 25,423 murders by gunfire took place in the United States in 2006 through 2007 – the years of the most recent available statistics.

Among these deaths, the rate of firearm homicides was higher in inner cities than in other parts of cities and higher than the murder rate of the country as a whole, Dahlberg said. People living in 50 of the largest cities, in fact, accounted for 67% of all firearm homicides.

In addition, children and teens aged 10 to 19 in these areas – more than 85% of them male – accounted for 73% of all firearm homicides, Dahlberg noted.

In the United States, ‘gun violence […]

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