The United States continues to be peculiar in handing out powerful magazine-fed firearms to almost anyone who wants one and not requiring background checks on private purchases even if these are made at gun shows. 80% of civilian-owned firearms world-wide are in the US, and only Yemen vaguely competes with us for rates of firearm ownership; Yemen is a violent mess with Shiite insurgencies, al-Qaeda taking over cities from time to time, tribal feuding, southern separatism and US drone strikes. And even it has fewer guns per person than the USA.
It has gotten to the point where the increasing epidemic of mass shootings now threatens law enforcement, with the deaths of 5 policemen in Dallas at the hands of an unhinged Black ultra-nationalist.
AS downright aneh dibandingkeun jeung beradab Éropa Kulon atawa Australia (anu enacted kontrol gun sanggeus shooting massal di 1996 sarta teu aya deui kajadian sapertos).
Dina 2013-2014 (dua belas bulan dimimitian dina Maret), aya 29 fatalities tina kejahatan patali gun in England and Wales (equivalent to 144 because UK is smaller than US).
Number of Murders by Firearms, US, 2014: 8124
bagean nu diterangkeun tina persen of all Murders that were committed by firearms in US: 68%
Bunuh diri di AS 2013: 41,149
Gun Suicides in US, 2013: 21,175
bagean nu diterangkeun tina persen sadaya murders di Inggris jeung Wales anu dipigawé ku senjata api: 5.4 persen.
Jumlah bunuh diri di Inggris jeung Wales, 2011: 4871 (sarua jeung kira-kira 25,818 di AS atawa 31% leuwih handap)
jumlah bunuh diri ku firearam di Inggris sareng Wales, 2011: 84
Pikeun langkung seueur ngeunaan pembunuhan ku senjata api di Inggris, tingali BBC.
AS boga kapamilikan gun pangluhurna di dunya sareng tingkat pembunuhan pangluhurna di dunya maju.
Sigana cukup jelas, ogé, yén loba bunuh diri AS moal lumangsung lamun senjata api éta teu omnipresent.
Aya sababaraha korelasi antara tingkat luhur kapamilikan bedil sareng tingkat luhur kajahatan telenges sacara umum, sacara global (sareng ogé upami anjeun ngabandingkeun kaayaan ku nagara di jero AS):
h / t Christopher Majka
Dina kasus Britania, murders senjata api téh kali 53 kirang ti di AS per kapita. [Ulah ganggu ku citations flawed tina Swiss atanapi Israél, dimana kalolobaan wargana sami sareng cadangan militér.]
Naha pemburu leres-leres peryogi senjata serbu AR-15 semi-otomatis? Éta kumaha aranjeunna gulung dina usum kijang? The Publik AS henteu nyangka.
PS ieu versi revisi tina kolom heubeul; lamun aranjeunna tetep nolak legislate rasional tur nuluykeun ngabalukarkeun massacres ieu, abdi tiasa tetep nulis kolom sarupa.
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Chicago shooting victims
http://crime.chicagotribune.com/chicago/shootings/
These numbers are almost surreal. 3000 last year, on a pace for 4000 this year.