Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysenâs surprise announcement Monday that he will not seek reelection this year is the latest indication that moderate Republicans like him and Rep. Frank LoBiondo, who have dominated New Jersey for decades, are an increasingly endangered species.
Canada, on the other hand, ranks 13th on the studyâs list, with 9.95 million firearms â or 31 per 100 residents. Moore is right that Canada has a far lower rate of firearm homicides than its neighbour to the south.According to a report by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, roughly 11,000 homicides were committed using firearms in the U.S. in 2011.his is not true. While the U.S. does have a homicide rate nearly double that of most developed countries like Canada, it doesnât have the worldâs highest homicide rate. With 6.4 homicides per 100 thousand people, the U.S. falls behind countries in Africa, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and Latin America.
If we look at all gun-related deaths as the CDC does from the past two years, the numbers are much higher. According the nonprofit project the Gun Violence Archive, there were 12,562 gun deaths in 2014 and 9,959 in 2015 thus far.Thatâs a grand total of 301,797 firearm-related deaths in the past decade, compared to 71 deaths from domestic acts of terrorism. more accurate count for gun deaths between 2005 and 2015 is 301,797. Though the imageâs numbers are slightly off, that doesnât undercut the point: guns have claimed many more lives than terrorist attacks. We rate the claim Mostly True.