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Gun deaths in America reach highest level in nearly 40 years, CDC data shows
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/gun-deaths-in-america-reach-highest-level-in-nearly-40-years-cdc-data-shows/ar-BBQUCwy?OCID=ansmsnnews11
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quote: By Jacqueline Howard,
CNN
DELRAY BEACH, FL - JANUARY 05:
Nearly 40,000 people in the United States died by guns last year, marking the highest number of gun deaths in decades, according to a new analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's WONDER database.
A similar analysis was first conducted by the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence, a non-profit gun policy advocacy group.
CNN replicated that analysis and found that 39,773 people died by guns in 2017, which is an increase of more than 10,000 deaths from the 28,874 in 1999. The age-adjusted rate of firearm deaths per 100,000 people rose from 10.3 per 100,000 in 1999 to 12 per 100,000 in 2017.
CDC statisticians confirmed with CNN on Thursday that these numbers are correct and they show gun deaths have reached a record-high going back to at least 1979, which was the year firearm deaths started to be coded in mortality data.
CNN's analysis also showed that 23,854 people died from suicide by guns in 2017, the highest number in 18 years. That's a difference of more than 7,000 deaths compared with 16,599 suicide deaths by guns in 1999.
The age-adjusted rate of suicide deaths by firearm rose from 6.0 in 1999 to 6.9 in 2017.
Firearm deaths in the data include gun deaths by homicide and suicide, unintentional deaths, deaths in war or legal interventions, and deaths that are undetermined.
When the data are analyzed by race and gender, they show that white men made up 23,927 of the total 39,773 firearm deaths last year, including suicides.
In 2017, the age-adjusted rate of suicide deaths by firearm was highest among white men at 14 per 100,000 -- compared with:
2.2 among white women
6.1 among black men
0.7 among black women
3.0 among Asian men
0.5 among Asian women
9.3 among American Indian or Alaska Native men
1.4 among American Indian or Alaska Native women
That same year, the age-adjusted rate of homicide deaths by firearm was highest among black men at 33 per 100,000 -- compared with:
3.5 among white men
1.1 among white women
3.5 among black women
1.4 among Asian men
0.5 among Asian women
4.8 among American Indian or Alaska Native men
1.2 among American Indian or Alaska Native women
Also in 2017, the age-adjusted rate of firearm deaths in legal interventions or war was highest among American Indian or Alaska Native men at 1.1 per 100,000 -- compared with:
0.3 among white men
0.0 among white women
0.5 among black men
Rates for all other groups were either unreliable or not recorded
"In 2017, nearly 109 people died every single day from gun violence. Gun violence is a public health epidemic that requires a public health solution, which is why we must immediately enact and implement evidence-based interventions -- like permit-to-purchase policies and extreme risk laws," Adelyn Allchin, the director of public health research for the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence, said in a written statement released last week.
"Gun violence has been part of our day-to-day lives for far too long. It is way past time that elected leaders at every level of government work together to make gun violence rare and abnormal."
On Wednesday, the National Rifle Association tweeted its long-standing position that "gun control laws are not the answer. If we want to prevent more horrific acts of violence our leaders need to stop demonizing the men and women of the @NRA and find solutions that will save lives."
John Bonifield contributed to this reporting.
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Re: Gun deaths in America reach highest level in nearly 40 years, CDC data shows
And firearm ownership is at its lowest point in US history.
What does that tell anyone with any intelligence at all?
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Re: Gun deaths in America reach highest level in nearly 40 years, CDC data shows
It tells us that a gun can be used more than once - by recidivist criminals for instance.
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quote: Gun violence is a public health epidemic
Let's see the mass media jump on this bandwagon. But to be consistent with all the propaganda and jibber jabber in the media about the "opioid epidemic" they would need to drop the word violence and just talk about the "gun epidemic."
There's a "gun epidemic" in America!!!
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quote: crogin wrote:
It tells us that a gun can be used more than once - by recidivist criminals for instance.
That makes no sense at all.
Typically guns are not used twice in crimes.
Once used in a crime, the ballistics record makes the gun too risky and it is thrown in the river.
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quote: Philer wrote:
quote: Gun violence is a public health epidemic
Let's see the mass media jump on this bandwagon. But to be consistent with all the propaganda and jibber jabber in the media about the "opioid epidemic" they would need to drop the word violence and just talk about the "gun epidemic."
There's a "gun epidemic" in America!!!
No, clearly the main problem is suicides, since almost all these mass shootings results in the shooter committing suicide.
If guns had never been invented, the social problems causing murder and suicide would still be causing the exact same death rate, only by different means.
It is really good they use firearms instead of mass murder means like arson, poison, explosives, etc., which not only can kill far more people, but do not require the presence of the person or make any noise, so they are much more likely to get away and be able to repeat the mass murder over and over again.
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That has got to be the biggest load of bollocks I've ever read insanity!
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The city of Brisbane Australia (pop 2.4million) has about 10 firearms murders annually.
Compare that with an American city of around that population.
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I'd love to but I can't, in 2016 Oregon had a gun murder rate of 500 plus persons in a state of only 4 million persons. Our homocide rate in this country is over 33k and our suicide rate is equal but just as appalling, why Rigby chooses to blow off homocide or suicide by guns is an enigma to me, especially when other countries with regulations are looking at a handful.
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Typically guns are not used twice in crimes.
Once used in a crime, the ballistics record makes the gun too risky and it is thrown in the river.
ahem!
A semi-automatic pistol seized by police after a shooting in Merseyside is believed to have been used in 19 firearms incidents in the past seven years
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/25/gun-seized-merseyside-most-criminally-used-firearm-britain
The hunt for Britain’s deadliest illegal gun
It has been used in 11 shootings and three murders in the West Midlands – and Britain’s deadliest illegal gun is still on the streets to this day.
https://www.expressandstar.com/news/crime/2018/08/31/the-hunt-for-britains-deadliest-illegal-gun/
After shootings, guns in the UK are often passed on, traded, rented or hidden away.
That is how this gun travelled across a major city without being seized, and was used in multiple, unrelated shootings
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/gun_no_6_untold_story_britains_deadliest_illegal_firearm
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