[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William J. Foristal) writes:
HI Sue,
Wow, powerful numbers but certainly no surprise. Gee, do you think there
could be a connection between our leading in executions as well?
Bill
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998 17:46:18 -0700 Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
>U.S. Leads the World in Gun Deaths
>
>> ATLANTA (AP) -- The United States has by far the highest
>> rate of gun deaths -- murders, suicides and accidents --
>> among the world's 36 richest nations, a government study
>> found.
>>
>> The U.S. rate for gun deaths in 1994 was 14.24 per
>> 100,000 people. Japan had the lowest rate, at .05 per
>> 100,000.
>>
>> The study, done by the Centers for Disease Control and
>> Prevention, is the first comprehensive international
>> look at gun-related deaths. It was published Thursday in
>> the International Journal of Epidemiology.
>>
>> The CDC would not speculate why the death rates varied,
>> but other researchers said easy access to guns and
>> society's acceptance of violence are part of the problem
>> in the United States.
>>
>> ``If you have a country saturated with guns -- available
>> to people when they are intoxicated, angry or depressed
>> -- it's not unusual guns will be used more often,'' said
>> Dr. Rebecca Peters, a Johns Hopkins University fellow
>> specializing in gun violence. ``This has to be treated
>> as a public health emergency.''
>>
>> The National Rifle Association called the study shoddy
>> because it failed to examine all causes of violent
>> deaths.
>>
>> ``What this shows is the CDC is after guns. They aren't
>> concerned with violence. It's pretending that no
>> homicide exists unless it's related to guns,'' said Dr.
>> Paul Blackman, a research coordinator for the NRA in
>> Fairfax, Va.
>>
>> The 36 countries chosen were listed as the richest in
>> the World Bank's 1994 World Development Report, with the
>> highest GNP per capita income.
>>
>> The study used 1994 statistics supplied by the 36
>> countries. Of the 88,649 gun deaths reported by all the
>> countries, the United States accounted for 45 percent,
>> said Dr. Etienne Krug, a CDC researcher and co-author of
>> the article.
>>
>> ``I was surprised by the magnitude of the difference
>> between the U.S. and other countries,'' Krug said.
>>
>> Brazil ranked second with 12.95 deaths per 100,000,
>> followed by Mexico with 12.69, Estonia with 12.26 and
>> Argentina with 8.93.
>>
>> Japan, where very few people own guns, averages 124
>> gun-related attacks a year, and less than 1 percent end
>> in death. Police often raid the homes of those suspected
>> of having weapons.
>>
>> Also at the bottom of the list were South Korea with .12
>> per 100,000 people, followed by Hong Kong with .14,
>> Mauritius with .19, Singapore with .21, Taiwan with .37
>> and England and Wales with .41.
>>
>> The study found that gun-related deaths were five to six
>> times higher in the Americas than in Europe or Australia
>> and New Zealand and 95 times higher than in Asia.
>
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