TITLE: The 33 Countries With the Most Gun Deaths per Person
https://247wallst.com/special-report/2023/10/16/the-33-countries-with-the-most-gun-deaths-per-person/
EXCERPT: Among countries with the most gun deaths per capita, the U.S. holds a high-ranking position in several categories. The U.S. ranks No. 2 for the most gun deaths overall and No. 1 in the rate of self-inflicted gun deaths. Many lawmakers attribute the high rate of gun deaths in the U.S. with lax gun laws.
The U.S. also holds the No. 1 ranking for civilian firearm ownership, with 120.5 firearms owned per 100 persons. In fact, according to the Small Arms Survey, the U.S. has 46% of all civilian-owned guns across the globe, despite having less than 5% of the global population. Among the countries on our list, No. 14, Pakistan, has the second highest number of civilian firearm owners per 100 persons. (States Where Gun Deaths Are Increasing Fastest.)
Three of the top five countries with the most gun deaths overall are in South America, one is in North America, and one is in Asia. El Salvador, No. 17, has the highest rate of interpersonal violent firearm deaths, per 100,000 people, followed by No. 6, Venezuela and No. 8, Guatemala. On a per capita basis, however, the countries with the worst gun violence are all in the Western Hemisphere, with the top six countries all in South America.
TITLE: Cities in Blue States Experiencing Larger Declines in Gun Violence in 2023
https://www.americanprogressaction.org/article/cities-in-blue-states-experiencing-larger-declines-in-gun-violence-in-2023/
EXCERPT: Americans are right when they say gun violence is a “very big” problem in the country today.17 After more than a decade of relatively low rates of gun deaths in the United States from 2000 to 2018,18 there has been an alarming surge in gun violence over the past couple years. From 2019 to 2021, the United States experienced the largest two-year increase in homicides ever recorded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—and it was almost entirely driven by gun homicides.19 This statistic is alarming and forces gun violence to the center of every public safety conversation. How policymakers have responded to this hard truth is telling. States such as Oregon, New Jersey, and 19 others—of which 15 were blue states—plus Washington D.C., passed a combined 91 gun safety bills in 2022 alone.20 Notably, the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence’s annual state scorecard rankings show states with the strongest gun laws consistently have the lowest rates of gun violence.21
Despite this strong association, conservative politicians continue to push the narrative that gun violence is getting worse in cities in blue states. However, the data do not support this claim. In the 300 most populous U.S. cities, from 2018 to the peak of gun violence in 2021, red-state cities, on average, saw their rates of gun homicides increase by 27 percent more than in blue-state cities.
In the 300 most populous U.S. cities, from 2018 to the peak of gun violence in 2021, red-state cities, on average, saw their rates of gun homicides increase by 27 percent more than in blue-state cities.
While still higher than pre-2019 levels, preliminary data suggest that 2023 will show the largest single-year decline in murders in U.S. history.22 As 81 percent of all homicides in the United States are committed by firearm, this signals a similarly large drop in gun homicides this year.23 However, this drop in gun homicides is not happening uniformly across U.S. cities. Among the 300 most populous U.S. cities, cities in blue states have seen a 14.9 percent decrease in year-to-date gun homicides after adjusting for population. In red-state cities, the drop is only 3.7 percent. Furthermore, the most significant declines in year-to-date gun homicide rates are also occurring in blue-state cities. Among the 100 most populous U.S. cities, seven of the top 10 cities experiencing the largest year-to-date drop in gun homicide rates, compared with 2022 rates, are in blue states.
TITLE: New Study: Guns Kill Kids More Than Anything Else
https://cannadelics.com/2023/10/16/new-study-guns-kill-kids-more-than-anything-else/
EXCERPT: The current headline is related to a study which was conducted by the American Association of Pediatrics; the biggest association of professional pediatrics in the United States. The study is entitled Trends in Pediatric Nonfatal and Fatal Injuries, and was published in October 2023. The study, which notes the general rise in pediatric deaths related to homicides, suicides, and poisonings in the past, “compared trends in fatal and nonfatal injuries in children, across intent and mechanism of injury.”
In order to collect data, study investigators accessed CDC, National Center for Health, and WISQARS (Web-based injury statistics query and reporting system) data related to fatal injuries from 2011-2021, and nonfatal injuries from 2011-2020.
The latter agency provides data on fatal injuries by way of death certificates, and gives exact death counts for US deaths according to age, intent, and reason for death. It also provides nonfatal injury information via national estimates, based on weighted data collected from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission’s National Electronic Injury Surveillance System.
In 2011, the rate of fatal injuries for children, was 14.07 out of 100,000. This went up to 17.3 out of 100,000 by 2021. Nonfatal injuries did not rise. Rather, they went down from 11,592.56 out of 100,00 to 5359.73 out of 100,000 in 2020. Both nonfatal injuries that were unintentional decreased (54.9%), as well as assaults (59.8%). There was, however, an increase in self-harm injuries of the nonfatal variety, by 57.1%.
If you’re wondering how this all relates to the headline, this is where that part comes in. According to study investigators, fatalities of several kinds, increased over this time span. The biggest increase was in drug poisonings that resulted in death, which went up a huge 133.3%. This was followed by deaths related to guns, with an increase of 87.1%, and suffocation-related deaths, which increased by 12.5%. These are the levels of increase in that time period, but the totals in each category are different.
Nonfatal injuries went down overall, but not in every category. Where they did decrease were the following reasons: death related to falls, overexertion, being struck, motor vehicle accidents, and cut pierce injuries. They decreased by 52.8%, 66.7%, 63%, 47.3%, and 36.7%, respectively. In other categories of nonfatal injuries there was no change, like drowning. Not only did deaths increase greatly in the categories of poisonings and firearms; but nonfatal injuries in these categories also increased, by 9.9% and 113% respectively.
The category with the overall highest fatality rate for children, was firearms. This was followed by drowning at #2, suffocation at #3; and poisonings (drug-related) coming in at #4; although the latter had the biggest increase during the designated period. From 2011-2020, the overall rate of fatality cases for children increased 250%. Essentially, while nonfatal injuries decreased, fatalities for children have actually skyrocketed.