A child shot his teacher, a 72-year-old man opened fire in public: Here's what that tells us about guns in America.

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While other wealthy countries have similar levels of interpersonal violence, the United States stands alone when it comes to shootings. An average of 110 Americans die daily from gun violence, far above the rate of gun deaths for any comparable nation.

News coverage often focuses on shootings committed against other people — particularly random public shootings and those committed with assault weapons. But that's only part of America's gun problem., according to David Hemenway, professor at Harvard School of Public Health. , according to the informatics group Statista. Mass shootings are just a small subset of all gun violence though., Hemenway said. Data shows these deaths are far more common than public shootings.

Nationally, gun violence within the AAPI community is significantly lower than the average, with the community accounting for about 7% of the overall U.S. population but just 2% of total gun deaths. However, that number is rising, according to the Giffords Center: From 2016-2020, AAPI gun deaths rose nearly 10%, driven largely by significant increases in suicide deaths.

When it comes to victims, Black Americans are twice as likely as white Americans to die from gun violence and 14 times more likely than white Americans to be wounded, according to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

 

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Between 2017 and 2020 the number of murders per million in the Black community was 8 times higher than for Whites and about 5 times higher than for Hispanics. Are these ratios holding?

That’s because we have too many criminals walking among us. And psychopaths.

And, honestly, the world just don't care. And they shouldn't. Let the Americans kill themselves.

When you have woke policies like letting criminals back on the street it is pretty ignorant to think this will have any effect other than to increase crime

“Comparable Nation”

We use guns. They use knives n sticks. We just more civilized

Compare a single nation on earth with the depth, breadth, population, with thousands of illegal immigrants crossing the border on a daily basis..... Now go sit down with your bogus comparisons

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