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Maine is looking for answers to the recent gun massacre. Well, they should look no further: There are about 400,000,000 guns in the U.S., and apparently no way to keep them out of the hands of the ...
Women, Black and Hispanic people were more likely to say they owned a gun for protection than for other reasons. Nearly all Black and Asian women who owned guns – 98% – said they carried that ...
A tiny fraction, only about 5% of people attempting suicide, use a gun. But guns are deadly almost every time, and so end up accounting for over half of suicide deaths. For veterans, that jumps to ...
About 72% of gun owners say they own a gun primarily for protection. [ 3 ] The world's armed forces control about 133 million (approximately 13 percent) of the global total of small arms, of which over 43 percent belong to two countries: Russia (30.3 million) and China (27.5 million). [ 1 ]
The Small Arms Survey 2017 [1] provides estimates of the total number of civilian-owned guns in a country. It then calculates the number per 100 people. This number for a country does not indicate the percentage of the population that owns guns, because single individuals can own multiple guns. See also Percent of households with guns by country.
Gun culture refers to the attitudes, feelings, values and behaviour of a society, or any social group, in which guns are used. [1] The term was first coined by Richard Hofstadter in an American Heritage article critiquing gun violence in the United States. [2] Local gun cultures are found all around the world, and attitudes toward guns vary ...
A woman trains real-life defensive gun use scenarios with live ammunition at a video shooting range in Prague, Czech Republic in 2018. The right to keep and bear arms (often referred to as the right to bear arms) is a legal right for people to possess weapons (arms) for the preservation of life, liberty, and property. [1]
In policing, guns are carried by most rank-and-file officers. But the correctional system places far tighter restrictions on the use of firearms. Officers might carry guns while patrolling the perimeter or transporting inmates, and prisons also store weapons in secure armories in case of riots or hostage situations.