46, 319 gun deaths occur in the united states each year.
46, 319 gun deaths occur in the united states each year.
how many gun deaths in the united states each year?
46, 319
the public policy debates about gun violence include discussions about firearms deaths – including homicide, suicide, and unintentional deaths – as well as the impact of gun ownership, criminal and legal, on gun violence outcomes. after the tragedy of sandy hook, the majority of people, including gun owners and non-gun owners, wanted the government to spend more money in order to improve mental health screening and treatment, to deter gun violence in america. in the united states in 2009 there were 3.0 recorded intentional homicides committed with a firearm per 100,000 inhabitants. the u.s. ranks 28 in the world for gun homicides per capita. a u.s. male aged 15–24 is 70 times more likely to be killed with a gun than their counterpart in the eight (g-8) largest industrialized nations in the world (united kingdom, france, germany, japan, canada, italy, russia). in 2013, there were 33,636 gun-related deaths, in the united states. meanwhile in the same year of japan, there were only 13 deaths that were involved with guns. in incidents concerning gun homicide or accidents, a person in america is about 300 times more likely to die than a japanese person. in 2015, there were 36,252 deaths due to firearms, and some claim as many as 372 mass shootings, in the u.s, while guns were used to kill about 50 people in the u.k. however, using the fbi definition of a "mass shooting" there were only 4 in the u.s. in 2015. more people are typically killed with guns in the u.s. in a day (about 85) than in the u.k. in a year.
gun politics in the united states
child access prevention (cap) laws, enacted by many states, require parents to store firearms safely, to minimize access by children to guns, while maintaining ease of access by adults. cap laws hold gun owners liable should a child gain access to a loaded gun that is not properly stored. the centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) claimed that, on average, one child died every three days in accidental incidents in the u.s. from 2000 to 2005. in most states, cap law violations are considered misdemeanors. florida's cap law, enacted in 1989, permits felony prosecution of violators. research indicates that cap laws are correlated with a reduction in unintentional gun deaths by 23%, and gun suicides among those aged 14 through 17 by 11%. a study by lott did not detect a relationship between cap laws and accidental gun deaths or suicides among those age 19 and under between 1979 and 1996. however, two studies disputed lott's findings. a 2013 study found that cap laws are correlated with a reduction of non-fatal gun injuries among both children and adults by 30–40%. in 2016 the american academy of pediatrics found that safe gun storage laws were associated with lower overall adolescent suicide rates. research also indicated that cap laws were most highly correlated with reductions of non-fatal gun injuries in states where violations were considered felonies, whereas in states that considered violations as misdemeanors, the potential impact of cap laws was not statistically significant. all of these studies were correlational, and do not account for other potential contributing factors.
gun violence in the united states