Explain the findings of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence in the United States

What will be an ideal response?


The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence (2016b) reports that every day, onaverage, 298 people are shot in the United States and 90 of them die as the result of gun violence. Furthermore:
- the U.S. firearm homicide rate is 20 times higher than the combined rates of countries that are our peers in wealth and population;
- firearm homicide is the second-leading cause of death (after motor vehicle crashes) for young people ages 1 to 19 in the United States; and
- although guns can and have been used successfully in self-defense in the home, a gun in the home is 22 times more likely to be used to kill or injure in a domestic homicide, suicide, or unintentional shooting than to be used in self-defense.

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What will be an ideal response?

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