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flamin lib

(14,559 posts)
Mon Jan 18, 2016, 05:04 PM Jan 2016

The Gap Between Gun Deaths in the U.S. and Other Advanced Nations Is Getting Wider, Study Finds

http://www.thetrace.org/2016/01/us-gun-deaths-versus-other-countries-2016/

While the United States has failed to significantly reduce its annual rate of gun deaths, other high income countries have been making steadier progress, resulting in a wider gap between the U.S. and its international peers when it comes to fatal shootings.

That’s the conclusion of an upcoming study by public health researchers David Hemenway and Erin Grinshteyn. Using 2010 data from the World Health Organization (WHO), the academics found that firearm homicide rates were 25 times higher in the U.S. than in other high-income countries. The research is an update to a study on WHO data from 2003, which determined the U.S.’s rate to be just 19.5 times higher than that of comparable nations. The math behind the increasing divergence comes down to this: While per capita gun deaths declined in the U.S. over the period in question, the decrease was a small dip from an anomalously high rate. In other high-income nations, already much lower rates have fallen farther.


All together now, "We're number one! We're number one!"

Gun deaths now exceed auto deaths in the U.S. and gun injuries are more than 90,000 a year costing the economy $260 Billion a year.

It's high time that Democrats address this issue. Make it a single issue election at all levels down ticket regardless of party.

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The Gap Between Gun Deaths in the U.S. and Other Advanced Nations Is Getting Wider, Study Finds (Original Post) flamin lib Jan 2016 OP
Gun deaths in the US TeddyR Jan 2016 #1
Read the source if it isn't too difficult to do before commenting. nt flamin lib Jan 2016 #2
 

TeddyR

(2,493 posts)
1. Gun deaths in the US
Mon Jan 18, 2016, 06:44 PM
Jan 2016

Have declined substantially in the last 20 years (or at least gun murders have).

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