Gun Violence, by the numbers:
Number of people killed by guns in 2006 in England & Wales (population 53 million): 46
Number of people killed by guns in 2006 in New York City (population 8 million): 590
Number of people killed by guns in the United States in 2004: 29,569
Percentage breakdown by US gun deaths in 2004, by type:
- 16,750 suicides (56% of all U.S. gun deaths)
- 11,624 homicides (40%)
- 649 unintentional shootings, 311 from legal intervention and 235 from undetermined intent (4%).
In 1998 (the most recent year for which this data has been compiled), handguns murdered:
- 373 people in Germany
- 151 people in Canada
- 57 people in Australia
- 19 people in Japan
- 54 people in England and Wales, and
- 11,789 people in the United States (suicides not included)
Sources: CDC National Center for Health Statistics mortality report online, 2007; Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence; The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
