How U.S. gun deaths compare to other countries

[billh58]

Americans are 10 times more likely to be killed by guns than people in other developed countries, a new study finds.

Compared to 22 other high-income nations, the United States' gun-related murder rate is 25 times higher. And, even though the United States' suicide rate is similar to other countries, the nation's gun-related suicide rate is eight times higher than other high-income countries, researchers said.

The study was published online Feb. 1 in The American Journal of Medicine.

"Overall, our results show that the U.S., which has the most firearms per capita in the world, suffers disproportionately from firearms compared with other high-income countries," said study author Erin Grinshteyn, an assistant professor at the School of Community Health Science at the University of Nevada-Reno. "These results are consistent with the hypothesis that our firearms are killing us rather than protecting us," she said in a journal news release.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-u-s-gun-deaths-compare-to-other-countries/

On another thread someone claimed that the USA has a "low" homicide rate compared to other countries. When a gun is used however, the picture changes. The right-wing gun lobby, like all Second Amendment absolutists and apologists, cherry-pick their statistics to distort the true state of the gun violence epidemic in this country.

[walkingman]

1. Pesky facts. Another cancer caused by the right-wing of this nation.

[mountain grammy]

3. Yep

[RKP5637]

2. Big money in US selling guns to kill people. Sickening!!! Ain't the USA just wonderful. Still

working on being at the bottom of the list for almost everything.

[John Fante]

4. The United States is far and away the most violent industrialized

nation on earth. It's safe compared to most developing/third world nations, dicey compared to countries in its economic peer group.