Sentence examples for rate of firearms from inspiring English sources

This week the West Midlands was labelled "the nation's gun crime capital" as figures from the Office for National Statistics showed that the region now has a higher rate of firearms offences for its population than London.

One study said the buyback cut the rate of firearm suicides by 74% in the first 10 years.

In addition, the authors note, there was a two-thirds decline in the over-all rate of firearm deaths.

The rate of firearm homicides was 20 times higher in the United States than in the other countries, according to the report, which cited a 2011 study of 23 countries.

Besides having the highest suicide rate (almost twice the national average), Nevada has the highest adult smoking rate and the highest death rate from smoking, the highest percentage of teenagers who are high-school dropouts, the highest teenage pregnancy rate and the highest rate of firearm deaths.

Research by a Wilfrid Laurier University academic and former economist with the Australian treasury, Christine Neill, and then Australian National University academic and now federal Labor MP, Andrew Leigh, published in the American Law and Economics Review in 2010, found the buyback cut the rate of firearm suicides by 74% in the first 10 years, saving 200 lives a year.

The rate of firearm injury for males (18.2 per 100,000) was nine times higher than for females (2.1 per 100,000).

An analysis of individual-level data found that simply requiring respondents to surrender firearms did not reduce the proportion of respondents who possessed firearms or the rate of firearm-related IPV (Moracco et al. 2006).

With respect to the latter, the higher prevalence of firearm ownership among veterans living in rural communities may help to explain the higher rate of firearm deaths in rural veteran suicides compared to urban veteran suicides (McCarthy et al., 2012).

However, since a defining characteristic of both suicide and homicide is the success of killing, and since guns are more effective means for reaching this goal than poison or other weapons, the rate of firearm possession can be expected to be positively related to overall rates of suicide and homicide.

Wyoming also has a rate of firearm deaths six points higher than the national average.