Over 5 months of 2018, more people died in school shooting in the US than in the entire 2017 year

25 May at Westville West School in Indiana, shooting occurred, the attacker injured two people, he was detained and in custody. The incident occurred a week after the shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas, where 10 people died, 13 were injured. Prior to this, the States were shocked by the news of the shooting at Parkland, Florida, where 17 people died, and 17 were injured.

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2018 year was one of the bloodiest in US schools, the newspaper writes Vox.

In the first five or so months of 2018, more people have already died because of the shooting in schools than in the entire 2017 year.

In 2017, 44 shooting occurred in American schools, which resulted in the death of 25 people, 60 people were injured.

As of 25 March 2018, 28 shootings took place in schools, as a result of which 40 people died, 66 were injured.

Overall, the homicide rate in America, including the number of homicides with firearms, has decreased over the past two decades. But in the past two years, criminologists have seen a surge in the number of murders, although it is not yet clear whether this trend will be maintained in the 2018 year.

But even as homicide rates have declined in recent decades, the United States remains the leader among developed countries in violent crime involving guns. This includes not only school shootings, but murders in general, which occur in America far more than any other developed country in the world.

The unique problem of violence in America

According to the United Nations, the homicide rate with firearms in the United States is almost 6 times higher than this figure in Canada; more than 7 times higher than in Sweden, and almost 16 times higher than in Germany.

Mass executions actually account for a small part of gun deaths in America, accounting for less than 2% of such deaths in the 2016 year. But in the United States, too much of these horrific events do occur: US residents make up less than 5% of the world's population, but 31% of people who have committed mass executions live in the country.

Researchers believe that the reason for this situation is the abundance of weapons and ease of access to them. As of 2007, the rate of firearms in the United States was 88,8 per 100 people. That is, there was one gun for almost every American, or more than one for every adult in the United States. The second most heavily armed country in the world was Yemen, a state torn by civil war, with 100 weapons per 54,8 people.

Researchers believe that a large number of weapons in society leads to an increase in the number of not only murders, but also suicides, which account for about 60% of deaths from firearms in the United States. Also, the number of weapons in society correlates with the level of family violence and even the use of weapons by police, who are often forced to shoot, saving their own lives and the lives of others from an armed criminal.

At the same time, the total number of crimes in the United States is not higher than in other developed countries, but the number of deaths from violent crimes is much higher than in any other state. And this, according to researchers, is associated with the proliferation of weapons.

For example, according to statistics, the risk of dying during a robbery in London is 54 times lower than in New York, although the number of robberies in these cities is approximately equal. This is due to the fact that in the US, robbers often use a pistol during a crime or the victim himself uses a pistol for self-defense.

On average, during crimes in the USA, weapons are used three times more often than during crimes in other developed countries.

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