{"id":2153,"date":"2010-07-05T10:06:25","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T18:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2010-07-05T20:07:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T04:07:27","slug":"god-bless-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2153\/god-bless-america\/","title":{"rendered":"God Bless America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2154\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2154\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2154\" title=\"godblessamerica2010c\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/07\/godblessamerica2010sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/07\/godblessamerica2010sm.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/07\/godblessamerica2010sm-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">God Bless America, courtesy Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>From the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence<\/em><\/p>\n<p>July 5, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every few years, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence updates its God Bless America poster to show the alarming difference between the number of gun murders in other developed countries vs. the number in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gun Murders by Country<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In one year, guns murdered 17 people in Finland, 35 in Australia, 39 in England and Wales, 60 in Spain, 194 in Germany, 200 in Canada, and 9,484 in the United States. The United States is an outlier, in part because our gun laws are woefully inadequate.  (An outlier is an observation that is numerically distant from the rest of the data.)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Gun Murders by Country and Population Size<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When the countries are compared on the basis of firearm homicides per 100,000 population, the United States remains an outlier. In one year, the U.S. firearm homicide rate was: 19 times that of Australia, 5 times that of Canada, 44 times that of England and Wales, 10 times that of Finland, 13 times that of Germany, and 24 times that of Spain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guns Used in Crime = More Deaths<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Research indicates that the overall rate of crime in the United States is comparable to the rates in other developed countries. However, in part because of our weak gun laws, guns are used more often in crimes in the United States than in other countries, which means that more people die. This partly explains why, even when our homicide rates are low by historical U.S. standards, they still are far higher than comparable countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We Can Do Better<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. needs to do a better job of protecting its citizens from the dangers of guns by making it harder for dangerous people to get guns. We can start by requiring Brady criminal background checks for gun sales, including those at gun shows. Join us in this fight. Lives are at stake.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Brady Center identified, based on published research, 26 high-income countries with populations of greater than or equal to one million. Of the 26 countries, annual firearm homicide counts for 2008 were available online for four countries: Australia, Canada, England and Wales, and the United States. 2006 data was available for Finland, Germany, and Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every few years, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence updates its God Bless America poster to show the alarming difference between the number of gun murders in other developed countries vs. the number in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1230,"featured_media":2154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>God Bless America - Fog City Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2153\/god-bless-america\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"God Bless America - Fog City Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Every few years, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence updates its God Bless America poster to show the alarming difference between the number of gun murders in other developed countries vs. the number in the United States.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2153\/god-bless-america\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Fog City Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fogcityjournal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-07-05T18:06:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2010-07-06T04:07:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/07\/godblessamerica2010sm.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"240\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"311\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ralph E. 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