Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Some statistics on deaths by gunshot

Based on an article by Nicholas Kristof in the AJC, using data from Harvard's David Hememway.

"More Americans have died from guns (including suicides) than the sum total of all the Americans who died in all the wars in American history, back to the American Revolution. . . .  American kids are 14 times more likely to die from guns as children in other developed countries.."

"When Australia suffered a mass shooting in 1996, the country united behind tougher laws on firearms.  As a result, the gun homicide rate was almost halved, and the gun suicide rate dropped by half, according to the Journal of Public Health Policy."

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