Les armes aux Etats-Unis (document en anglais)

In USA, it’s 88.8 guns for 100 people.

Every year 97 820, people are shoot that’s mean 268 people are shoot every day . Last year, in Canada, 173 people were shoot dead.

DID YOU KNOW? Women are more likely to be shot by an intimate partner than killed by a stranger.

→ Over 90 percent of female homicide victims are killed by someone they know (VPC, p. 3, based on 2008 data).

→ In 2010, at least 574 women were shot to death by a husband, ex-husband, or boyfriend (VPC, 2010). That's more than one woman murdered every day.

→ Women are more than twice as likely to be shot to death by their male intimates as they are to be shot, stabbed, strangled or killed in any other way by a stranger (Kellermann, p. 1).

→ For non-fatal injuries treated in emergency rooms, women are 3.6 times more likely than men to be shot by a current or former spouse than by a stranger (Wiebe, p. 405).

→ When firearms are used in a family or intimate assault, death is 12 times more likely than if another weapon is used (Saltzman, p. 3043).

→ An abuser’s access to a gun is associated with an 8-fold increase in the risk of homicide (Campbell, p. 1090).

→ Firearms appear to be more common in homes where battering has occurred (36.7 percent) than in the general population (16.7 percent) (Sorenson and Wiebe, p. 1412).

→ In two thirds of battered women’s households that contained a firearm, the intimate partner used the gun against the woman, usually threatening to shoot/kill her (71.4 percent) or to shoot at her (5.1 percent). (Sorenson and Wiebe, p. 1412).

→ Batterers threaten their victims with guns by threatening to shoot them, cleaning, holding or loading a gun during an argument, threatening to shoot at a pet or person the victim cares about, and shooting a gun during an argument with the victim (Rothman, p. 62).

→ The health-related costs of rape, physical assault, stalking, and homicide by intimate partners exceed $5.8 billion each year (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2003).

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