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Gun Culture in the USA was started in the late 19th century and grown exponentially from year to year, at present U.S. civilians alone handling about 46 percent of the total worldwide civilians handling guns.
Mass Shootings
The below map shows the number of mass shootings held in various U.S. states in the year 2019 by the differentiating between kills and injuries. From this map, we can conjecture that there is more number of killing and injuring cases in California and Texas states. Following it, Illinois, Ohio, Virginia displaying a related trend with slightly fewer claims compared to above-specified states. California had 195 injured and 65 killed cases, Texas had 147 injured and 72 executed cases, Illinois ranked 2nd in terms of profoundly injured cases with over 180 cases.
Which Country has the Highest mortality because of guns?
According to the American Journal of medicine's survey in 2010, the United States of America is the only Country with 10.2 Total Death Rates per 100,000 Population among the high-income countries such as United Kingdom, Spain, Australia, Canada, Italy, Ireland, Finland. The USA is not just leading in total death rates but also in firearm suicides with 6.3, firearm homicides with 3.6. The highlighted region in the graph indicates all the details clearly for the USA.
The United States has a huge gun problem compared with other high-income countries, with higher rates of crime and gun-related suicide cases. Although the gun-related crime rate is decreasing in other high-income countries, the USA's crime rate keeps on increasing from year to year.
What categories of people are most affected by gun shootings?
Let us notice one thing that is just March 2020 data alone consists of numerous kills in the USA. Use the gun-shaped slider to compare the kills in different categories such as kills according to age group and gender. It is known that the people with male gender and with age greater than 18 are killed most. Just in March 2020, 605 kills are of the male gender, and 567 people are above 18 years. From this analysis, we can assure that this gun culture is hazardous to the male and whose age is above 18 years.
Registered guns
From the reports of the year 2019, it is known that there is the highest number of guns registered in states like Texas with 725368, Florida with 432581, California with 376666, and many others with a high number of gun registrations. It is also identified that the type of guns mostly used for shootings is Handguns, and the least used guns are shotguns according to Statista data until the year 2020.
Do shootings occur accidentally?
Yes, in 2020, from January to March alone has numerous cases where people got killed because of accidental use of guns. The data shows that more kills occurred in the South region of the US. States like Texas, Florida, Ohio, etc. have more cases compared to other parts of America. This information also correlates the info we found earlier that is the number of guns registered. We can see that the top 10 states with the highest number of firearms registered are matching with the states in this accidental shooting list. To view the number of kills based on region and states, click on region circles below and select state of your choice.
What has to be done?
By looking at the above facts, it is ascertained that there is a lot of gun violence in the united states. Several precautions have to be taken by the government to safeguard many innocent civilians. New laws have to be introduced to reduce this violence. Severe actions should be taken on ammunition, which is selling firearms illegally. Gun licenses should be issued carefully by examing the need of the person. Laws should be made to decrease effortless access to dangerous firearms.
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