| Statistics on gun-related deaths Issue1 #242704 Statistics on total number of gun-related deaths, accident /suicide / homicide, other crime eg armed hold-ups, number of perpetrators with known mental illness (type), number of perpetrators with criminal background etc |
- More than 31,000 people a year in the United States die from gunshot wounds [1]. Because victims are disproportionately young, gun violence is one of the leading causes of premature mortality in the U.S.
- In addition to these deaths, in 2010, there were an estimated 337,960 nonfatal violent crimes committed with guns, [2] and 73,505 persons treated in hospital emergency departments for non-fatal gunshot wounds [1] [3].
- The U.S. has a homicide rate seven times the average of other high-income countries [4].
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