During the seven years between 2014 and 2021, the population of the United States grew by 4.7%. Tragically, suicide by gun increased five times as fast at 23%. Total gun deaths grew almost ten times as fast at 45% and saddest of them all, deaths by gun of children under 18 grew by 86%, 18 times the growth of the population, according to data from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Except for Brazil, the United States leads the world in the number of gun deaths, according to the most recent data available from the World Population Review. Currently in the U.S., 14.5 individuals out of 100,000 are killed every year by guns. The countries that have higher gun-death rates are in Latin America and the Caribbean, many of them nearly-failed states overrun with drug cartels.
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The U.S. also leads the world in the number of guns per person. We far exceed every other country, with 120 guns for every 100 individuals, adding up to 400 million guns, according to American Gun Facts.
During the nine days surrounding this year’s Fourth of July celebrations, our country experienced 38 mass-murder incidents, killing 35 and injuring 198. The U.S. has a gun problem!
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