Guns

Question 1

What percentage of American homicides are gun-related (2016)?

Answer 1

64%

Question 2

How many civilian-owned firearms are there in the US per capita as of 2016?

Answer 2

1.2

Question 3

What percentage of American adults own guns?

Answer 3

30%

Question 4

What percentage of American adults live in a household that has a gun?

Answer 4

42%

Question 5

What percentage of Americans say they personally know someone who has been shot?

Answer 5

44%

Question 6

How many Americans died in 2016 in gun-related incidents?

Answer 6

38,658

Question 7

Of the 38,938 gun deaths in America in 2016, how many were suicides? What percentage is this?

Answer 7

22,938 or 60%

Question 8

Of the 38,658 gun deaths in America in 2016, how many were homicides? What percentage is this/

Answer 8

14,415 or 37%

Question 9

Define Assault rifle

Answer 9

An assault rifle is a selective-fire rifle that uses an intermediate cartridge and a detachable magazine.

Question 10

rifle

Answer 10

A rifle is a portable, long-barrelled firearm designed for precision-oriented shooting, to be held with both hands and braced against the shoulder for stability during firing, and with a barrel that has a helical pattern of grooves (“rifling”) cut into the bore wall.

Question 11

AR-15

Answer 11

often called assault rifles or sporting rifles — are semi-automatic weapons, a civilian version of the military’s fully automated M16. They’ve been high on the list of guns that many people want banned. (The AR in the name of the gun doesn’t stand for assault rifle, but for ArmaLite, its original developer in the 1960s.)

Question 12

How many unlawful homicides were committed in the US in 2016? How many involved a firearm?

Answer 12

15,070, with 11,004 involving a firearm.

Question 13

homicide

Answer 13

Homicide is a legal term for any killing of a human being by another human being. Homicide itself is not necessarily a crime—for instance, a justifiable killing of a suspect by the police or a killing in self-defense. Murder and manslaughter fall under the category of unlawful homicides.

Question 14

Of the 11,004 unlawful homicides committed with guns in the US in 2016, how many were from handguns? What percentage is this?

Answer 14

7,105 or 66%

Question 15

Of the 11,004 unlawful homicides committed with guns in the US in 2016, how many were from rifles? What percentage is this?

Answer 15

374 or 3.4%

Question 16

What is the price of a handgun? An assault rifle?

Answer 16

About $200 for a handgun and about $1,500 for an assault rifle.

Question 17

Why did the number of mass shootings in the U.S. skyrocket in 2013?

Answer 17

Because up through 2012 a mass shooting was defined as an incident in which at least four victims are killed in an indiscriminate shooting, but in 2013 the definition was changed to an incident in which at least three victims are killed in an indiscriminate shooting.

Question 18

What percentage of guns used in crimes are owned illegally?

Answer 18

They found that in approximately 8 out of 10 cases, the perpetrator was not a lawful gun owner but rather in illegal possession of a weapon that belonged to someone else.

79%

Question 19

Is a person more likely to be stabbed to death or killed by a rifle?

Answer 19

More people are stabbed to death every year than are murdered with rifles.

Question 20

Is a person more likely to be bludgeoned to death by a blunt object or beaten to death by arms and legs, or to be killed by a rifle?

Answer 20

They are more likely to be bludgeoned to death/killed by being heated up with hands and legs.