“… Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama also had higher firearms death rates than Mexico, where rival drug cartels are engaged in
bloody conflict. Montana’s death rate from guns was higher than in Colombia, where
drug trafficking is rife.
Wyoming, Arizona and Oklahoma all ranked above Brazil. Suburban New Jersey had a higher gun death rate than Nicaragua, Mali and Djibouti.
In June, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy
declared gun violence a public health crisis — putting it on a par with a 1960s warning on the lethal consequences of cigarette smoking.
…
Globally, the United States ranks in the 93rd percentile for overall firearm mortality, the 92nd percentile for firearm mortality among children and teenagers, and the 96th percentile for firearm mortality among women, the report found.
U.S. states have a higher firearm mortality rate than most other countries in the world. Rates of self-harm are also much higher. Black, American Indian and Alaska Native people experience the highest rates of any racial or ethnic group…”
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OTOH, I bet their deaths from being pushed out of windows is lower than Russia.
