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In reply to the discussion: Mexico says it will take legal action against US over El Paso shooting [View all]billh58
(6,635 posts)11. How U.S. gun deaths compare to other countries
Americans are 10 times more likely to be killed by guns than people in other developed countries, a new study finds.
Compared to 22 other high-income nations, the United States' gun-related murder rate is 25 times higher. And, even though the United States' suicide rate is similar to other countries, the nation's gun-related suicide rate is eight times higher than other high-income countries, researchers said.
The study was published online Feb. 1 in The American Journal of Medicine.
"Overall, our results show that the U.S., which has the most firearms per capita in the world, suffers disproportionately from firearms compared with other high-income countries," said study author Erin Grinshteyn, an assistant professor at the School of Community Health Science at the University of Nevada-Reno. "These results are consistent with the hypothesis that our firearms are killing us rather than protecting us," she said in a journal news release.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-u-s-gun-deaths-compare-to-other-countries/
Compared to 22 other high-income nations, the United States' gun-related murder rate is 25 times higher. And, even though the United States' suicide rate is similar to other countries, the nation's gun-related suicide rate is eight times higher than other high-income countries, researchers said.
The study was published online Feb. 1 in The American Journal of Medicine.
"Overall, our results show that the U.S., which has the most firearms per capita in the world, suffers disproportionately from firearms compared with other high-income countries," said study author Erin Grinshteyn, an assistant professor at the School of Community Health Science at the University of Nevada-Reno. "These results are consistent with the hypothesis that our firearms are killing us rather than protecting us," she said in a journal news release.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-u-s-gun-deaths-compare-to-other-countries/
Other countries may have higher per capita murder/suicide rates, but we lead the world in gun murder/suicide rates.
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Mexico says it will take legal action against US over El Paso shooting [View all]
highplainsdem
Aug 2019
OP
They should pass a Magnitsky style act and sanction Trump personally for inciting mass murder
RockRaven
Aug 2019
#2
"Do something" about their own 5x homicide rate? Or are you referring to this action? n/t
X_Digger
Aug 2019
#24
I can't believe how quickly it went up from 3 times to 5 times our homicide rate. I know our rate...
EarnestPutz
Aug 2019
#76
Exactly right. Our market for Fentyl, Meth, coke creates the high murder rate. All their guns ...
marble falls
Aug 2019
#25
Submitting a Wiki article in college would get your paper thrown out by the professor.
TheBlackAdder
Aug 2019
#60
I'll take Wikki and their footnotes over a opinion piece in the LA Times. nt
EX500rider
Aug 2019
#72
Makes sense to me, the Cartels go for full auto, not available over the counter in the US.
EX500rider
Aug 2019
#74
While there is a lot of murder in Mexico, there's never been a xase of of a Mexican gunman ...
marble falls
Aug 2019
#7
the cartels are the cause of so much immigration to the USA. Lots are fleeing for their lives
mucifer
Aug 2019
#30
That's half the srory. How about some statistics on Mexicans killed in this country? And again ...
marble falls
Aug 2019
#23
I haven't been able to find any stats for Mexican nationals murdered in the US per year.
Jedi Guy
Aug 2019
#54
Right, they just happen to stumble upon mass graves with 100+, 200+, 300+ bodies.
X_Digger
Aug 2019
#26
Would I be far off on the mark at guessing that most of those are being done in areas that are
cstanleytech
Aug 2019
#44
Its not so much the war on drugs rather its our high demand for them making it lucrative for people
cstanleytech
Aug 2019
#45
It's not like we installed remote controlls in hundreds of thousands of South Americans.
Igel
Aug 2019
#48
Dead is dead. I doubt it matters to the dead which circumstance they fall prey to. n/t
X_Digger
Aug 2019
#40