Another day, another idiot loose with an assault rifle and who knows what else..."exercising his second amendment rights" (based only on the second half of the second amendment of course).
Any sentient, intelligent, thinking being can quickly come to the conclusion we have a gun problem in this country.
Fortunately true thinkers want to know the facts, and this is one of the studies that scared the crap out of the NRA enough so that they exerted their bribery muscle to shut down all US studies on gun deaths. The NRA stance is "what you don't know won't hurt you...unless there is a gun involved".
Ten years ago (before most of the mass shootings), a study of 23 other high-income countries showed:
- Firearm homicide rate in US - 19.5 times higher than the other countries
- Firearm homicide rate for 15-24 year olds - 42.7 times higher
- US "unintentional" firearm deaths were 5.2 times higher
- 80% of all firearms deaths among these countries occurred in the US
- 86% of women in these countries killed by firearms were US women
- 87% of all children ages 0 to 14 killed by firearms were in the US
The source is a report in the US Library of Medicine at the National Institute of Health:
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