The US gun homicide rate is 25 times higher than that of the other advanced nations
An article in the American Journal of Medicine by HSPH graduate Erin Richardson Grinshteyn (Assistant Professor, University of Nevada-Reno) and David Hemenway compares the US violent death rate for 2010 with that of the other two dozen high-income countries (e.g., Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom). They find that the overall firearm death rate in the US from all causes is 10 times higher than the rates for these other advanced nations. Ninety percent of women from advanced countries who were killed with guns are from the United States. Compared to these other advanced countries, the US has more guns, weaker gun laws, and a much higher rate of gun death.
