PROS OF GUN CONTROLLING IN UK

PROS OF GUN CONTROLLING IN UK - Reduce the gun related deaths in UK Statistics: From 1996 – 2011, Total number of Gun Deaths fluctuated but in the period of 2011, it decreased down to 146 compared to 247 in 1996 *Alpers, Philip, Marcus Wilson, Amélie Rossetti and Daniel Salinas 2015 Guns in the United Kingdom: Total Number of Gun Deaths Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney GunPolicy.org, 11 November Accessed 15 November 2015 at: http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compareyears/192/total_number_of_gun_deaths Rate of All Gun Deaths per 100.000 people also fluctuated but had the trend of decreasing from 1996 – 2011 Alpers, Philip, Marcus Wilson, Amélie Rossetti and Daniel Salinas 2015 Guns in the United Kingdom: Rate of All Gun Deaths per 100,000 People Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney GunPolicy.org, 11 November Accessed 15 November 2015 at:http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compareyears/192/rate_of_all_gun_deaths_per_10 0_000_people - And if compared to New York City of United States, we can see that the rate of NY is more than four times as high as that of UK ( NY: 4.39 and UK: 0.23) Alpers, Philip, Marcus Wilson, Amélie Rossetti and Daniel Salinas 2015 Guns in the United Kingdom: Rate of All Gun Deaths per 100,000 People Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney GunPolicy.org, 11 November Accessed 15 November 2015 at:http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compare/192/rate_of_all_gun_deaths_per_100_ 000_people/320 In the United Kingdom, the percentage of homicides committed with a firearm was reported to be 8% (2011 – 2012) In the United Kingdom, the annual rate of suicide by any means per 100,000 population was 11.8 % (2011) compared to 13.9% (1990) Meanwhile, the annual rate of firearm suicide per 100,000 population just was 0.15% (2011) In the United Kingdom, annual unintentional shooting deaths total was just (2011) while in California, it was 35 In the United Kingdom, the annual unknown-cause shooting deaths total was 10 (2011) In the United Kingdom, annual legal-intervention gun homicides total was just (2011)