![]() Wintemute wrote in an editorial published in JAMA alongside the new report. While mass shootings like these capture the most media attention, they are responsible for a small sliver of overall gun deaths in the United States, gun violence experts Frederick P. These numbers come days after a gunman in Jacksonville, Florida, fatally shot two people and injured 11 more before he killed himself Sunday during a video game tournament in a shopping mall. at a rate of 6.4 per 100,000 deaths - a total of 23,800 people - the second highest rate worldwide. But suicides linked to guns occurred in the U.S. When it comes to the number of gun-related homicides, the U.S. Overall, 64 percent of deaths were determined to be homicides, while an additional 27 percent were suicides and 9 percent were accidental shootings.īut country to country, looking at the ways people die due to gunfire produces a deeply varied picture, said Christopher Murray, the institute’s director. Together, the study published in the journal JAMA noted, these countries hold less than 10 percent of the world’s population. Half of all gun-related deaths in 2016 occurred in six nations - Brazil, the United States, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Guatemala. The new numbers, from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s latest study of Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors, offer several new ways to measure the impact of gun deaths worldwide. ![]() In 2016, more than 250,000 people worldwide died as a result of firearms, and half of all of those deaths came from six nations, including the U.S.
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