Whether or not you like guns, the facts don’t lie: The United States has a huge problem with gun crime. A study published in The American Journal of Medicine, based on data collected by the World Health Organization in 2010, shows that Americans are 10 times more likely than citizens of any other high-income country to be killed by gunfire, whether murder, accident or suicide.
The study found the United States’ gun homicide rate is 25 times higher than the rest of the comparable countries, (emphasis added) while the overall homicide rate is seven times higher. And it’s much worse for certain groups. For 15- to 24-year-olds, the gun homicide rate is nearly 50 times higher.
More than 90 percent of the women, children and young adults killed by guns in high-income countries were Americans.
While the suicide rate in the U.S. is average, the gun-related suicide rate is eight times higher. In 2012 (the most recent year for which there is solid data), 32,288 people died from gunshot wounds in the United States. According to another study […]
I am personally more concerned about being harmed by doctors, the drugs they prescribe, or frankly getting hit by car or truck. Given the vast number of guns in this country, there are still relatively few irresponsible gun usages..though it is still a problem for sure, as with any potentially lethal circumstance.