Americans Are Much More Likely to Be Killed by Guns Than People in Other Countries
Researchers recently decided to see, using the World Health Organization’s 2010 mortality data to compare rates in the United States with those found in other populous, high-income countries.
The numbers they found suggest that a person is much, much more likely to be killed by a gun in the United States than in any of these other countries, and it isn’t remotely close. The gun homicide rate in the United States was more than 25 times higher than in other high-income countries, according to a new study in the American Journal of Medicine that examined death rates per 100,000 people.
In the United States, the overall homicide rate is seven times higher than these other countries, while the homicide rate when discounting guns was 2.7 times higher, the study said.
All told, the rate of deaths involving guns in the United States was 10 times higher than these other countries.
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