| inbluevt | Date: Thursday, 2013/09/19, 5:34 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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A study on guns, violence and mental health, long scheduled to be published this week, finds that gun ownership is a bigger factor than mental illness when it comes to firearms deaths. But the data suggest that both play roles. Earlier research has found that places with high rates of gun ownership have more firearms deaths, but critics of those findings say that it could be that people living in dangerous places are apt to buy firearms to .
And the question of mental illness has surfaced again and again, with shootings in Aurora, Colo.,
Newtown, Conn., and now the Washington Navy Yard, where 12 people were killed Monday by a man who appears to . In this study, doctors in New York looked at data on gun ownership, crime rate, firearms-related deaths and depression from 27 developed countries, including the United States, Japan, Great Britain and South Africa.
The United States had the highest rate of civilian gun ownership, at almost 90 guns per 100 people. The next two countries on the list were Switzerland and Finland, with about 45 guns per 100 people. Japan, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom had the lowest gun numbers, ranging from less than one gun per 100 in Japan to six in the U.K. The countries with more civilian guns also had the highest rates of firearms deaths, with the United States leading the list at 10 deaths per 100,000, based on an international mortality database.
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Flags fly at half-staff Tuesday after the deadly shootings at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.
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