This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast

24 March, 2021 – Episode 817 – Let’s Talk Science!


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America is getting back to normal…
Nowhere is that more clear than with the recent mass shooting in Colorado.
Since there are tens of millions more guns than people in the United States
I thought we might start the show with a few fun gun facts…
1 – there are around 70 millions more guns than people in the United States.
About ? of Americans own a gun,
which means gun owning Americans are really into owning guns…
In 2018, 73% of homicides were committed with firearms according to the FBI,
And 600,000 violent crimes were committed with a gun.
While the majority of Americans support stricter gun laws according to the pew research folks in 2019 at 60%,
That number is even higher in women who, fun fact…
are three times more likely to be murdered with a gun by an intimate partner than a perfect stranger.
As also reflected in a 2019 study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine that
showed states with the highest gun ownership had 64.6 percent increased incidence rate
of domestic firearm homicide when compared to states with the least.
And…
...more
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