The United States is the only country in The world Civilian rifles outnumber people, according to the Switzerland-based Small Arms Survey (SAS). that it also The only country in which there is at least one It takes mass shooting place All yearciting the poll, CNN said.
There are 120.5 guns for The report said that out of every 100 Americans, the numbers are shocking in the background of Tuesday’s mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Texas that killed 21 peoplebone of they children.
The Falkland Islands come after the United States with It is estimated at 62 guns per 100 people, and Yemen, exhausted from war, is the third highest gun Property rate with 53 guns per 100 people.
exactly the contrary, in some countriessuch as South Korea and Japan, this rate hovering around 0.2, near zeromentioned.
SAS . system research It is estimated that Americans own 393 million of 857 million civilian guns availableand this figure corresponds to 46% of The global civil gun cache.
A unique American phenomenon
He. She also Draws attention to the issue that regular Mass shootings “a unique American phenomenon”.
The survey confirmed that mass shootings indicate events in which at least four people Killed, except for the offender and this definition does not include profit criminal Activism, family killings, and state-sponsored violence.
A CNN report indicated that four out of every 100,000 people in The United States was victims of gun hnf in 2019, he is 18 years old times average rate in else developed countries.
While the United States population corresponds to 4% of The world populationsuicides by firearms in United State add up to 44% of global Suicide with a gun in 2019, she said.
at least one heavy gunfire took place in half of The world’s developed countries Between 1998 and 2009, but no more out of eight accidents in Which developed state during this period. Over the course of 22 years, more More than 100 mass shootings have occurred in United States and over 2000 people They became victims of These shootings.
about 44% with gun
The report said, referring to a survey conducted in October 2020, that about 44% of adults in the United States live in a house with a gunThird, and about one owns one Personally, the report said.
United State one of only three countries Where its citizens have the constitutional right to carry or obtain a gun and in Mexico and Guatemala rate of gun Ownership approx one-10 of who – which of United State.
while many countries in The world Take legal action and fight against Armed violence and loss of in thousands of Live, just around half of adults in the United States support More stringent gun Laws and political reforms, leads to a deadly “Course of Hanf” in community, she said.
