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🇬🇧 UK mass shootings with at least four casualties:
2000 - 2023: 7 (total deaths, 24).
🇺🇸 US mass shootings with at least four casualties:
2023: 201
2022: 647
2021: 690
The US firearm homicide rate in 2019 was 22 times greater than the rate of the EU.
In 2021, the most recent year for which complete data is available, 48,830 people died principally from gun-related injuries in the US.
That figure includes gun murders, gun suicides, accidental gun deaths, those that involved law enforcement & cases that couldn't be determined.
Suicides account for the majority of US gun deaths.
In 2021, 54% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. were suicides (26,328), while 43% were murders (20,958).
Other gun deaths were: accidental (549); involved law enforcement (537); or had undetermined circumstances (458).
By contrast, in the UK, between April 2022 – March 2023, there were a total of 39 recorded gun deaths, including 25 homicides.
The more guns there are in society, the more gun violence there is. In the US some two thirds of homicides involve a gun while in the UK, around 5% do.
🇬🇧 The total homicide rate in the UK remains very low - 1.17/100,000 population during the year ending March 2022.
🇺🇸 Among advanced developed countries, the US has by far the highest homicide rate: 7.8/100,000 population in 2020.
#GunControl obviously works. 🙏
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