US gun homocide rate 25x higher than other high income countries

Posted by gregdoesit on Friday February 05, 2016 @03:56PM
from the amjmed.com dept.

http://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(15)01030-X/abstract

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Re:US gun homocide rate 25x higher than other high income co... by ecolak on Friday February 05, 2016 @04:57PM (#11044956)

What's a homocide?

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Re:US gun homocide rate 25x higher than other high income co... by Animats on Friday February 05, 2016 @05:16PM (#11045054)

The US has about 33,000 deaths by gun per year. This is the price we pay in blood for the right to keep and bear arms.

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Re:US gun homocide rate 25x higher than other high income co... by rimunroe on Friday February 05, 2016 @04:08PM (#11044635)

Loading this on a mobile browser was an adventure in viewport movement.

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Re:US gun homocide rate 25x higher than other high income co... by bunnymancer on Friday February 05, 2016 @04:42PM (#11044871)

"Ninety percent of women, 91% of children aged 0 to 14 years, 92% of youth aged 15 to 24 years, and 82% of all people killed by firearms were from the United States."

I can't help but be annoyed by the "Ninety percent"..

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