Mark Abraham1. Compared to other wealthy countries, US firearm homicide rates were 36X higher in high-gun states & 13.5X higher in low-gun states
2. Among wealthy countries, 84% of all gun deaths, 92% of women and 97% of all children aged 0-4 killed by guns were from the US.
Grinshteyn and Hemenway, 2019:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30817955/ #publichealth #gunviolence #guncontrol
Violent death rates in the US compared to those of the other high-income countries, 2015 - PubMed
Violence is a serious public health issue in the U.S. This research compares the US and other high-income countries in terms of violent death. We used data from the World Health Organization for populous, high-income countries. Data from CDC's WISQARS and WONDER systems were used to assess mortality …
