Terrorism armed attack in the US: thousands of people killed in 5 months

Today in the US is known as “National Gun Violence Awareness Day” and thus gun violence is being discussed again in the country.

According to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), which archives gun violence in the country, 268 mass shootings took place in the United States this year. In the past 5 months, 17,737 people have lost their lives and 14,723 people have been injured by gun violence in different regions of the US.

Victims of gun violence include 113 children ages 0-11 and 642 children ages 12-17. The number of children injured between the ages of 0-17 was recorded as 1894.

587 people lost their lives and 361 people were injured in armed violence involving police.

According to data from the Gun Violence Archive, in 2022, 44,362 people lost their lives as a result of gun violence and 38,592 people were injured. Again, based on last year’s data, 1,683 children ages 0-17 were victims of gun violence and 4,487 children were injured.

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Gun culture is one of the most discussed topics in the US, the country with the most mass shootings in the world. From politics to civil society, the country’s anti-gun sectors are voicing their demands for a legal restriction of the individual’s right to armament. The US stands out as the only country in the world where weapons owned by civilians outnumber the population of the country.

In research conducted after the May 24, 2022 school shooting in which 21 people, including 19 children, were killed in the US state of Texas, it was determined that 120.5 firearms were thrown at each 100 people, and it was claimed that the US ranked first in individual armaments.

Even in the Falkland Islands, which follows the US in second place in the arming of civilians, there are 62 guns per 100 people, this rate is almost half that of the US.

In the aforementioned research, it was observed that Yemen, which has been experiencing a civil war for more than 7 years, ranks third with 53 weapons per 100 inhabitants, while in countries such as South Korea and Japan, this relationship is close. at 0.2. .

It is estimated that 393 million of the 857 million weapons held by civilians in the world are in the US, which corresponds to approximately 46 percent of the world’s stock.

It is claimed that in the US, where mass shootings occur every year, 4 out of 100,000 people die as a result of armed violence, and this rate is 18 times higher than the average for other developed countries. According to the same research, the US, which has only 4 percent of the world’s population, accounts for 44 percent of the world’s firearm suicides.

According to a Gallup poll conducted in October 2020, about 44% of American adults live in households with firearms, and about one-third own firearms.

The United States is one of only three countries in the world where carrying or possessing a weapon is a constitutional right. In the other two countries, Mexico and Guatemala, the rate of gun ownership in relation to population is reported to be almost one-tenth that of the United States.

While many countries around the world take legal action against gun violence, despite the loss of thousands of lives, only about half of American adults support stronger gun laws and policy reform, and this is assessed to be attitude in society leads to the continuation of the cycle of deadly violence. (AA)