Almost 300 million firearms are owned by individuals in the United States (106 million handguns, 105 million rifles and 83 shotguns million), according to the last national sociological survey (GSS) of the year 2010 national survey conducted by the Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago. With 315 million inhabitants and an average of one firearm per capita, the United States is the first country in the world for firearms possession by civilians, far ahead of Yemen. Each holder possesses on average two to three.
Putting in perspective successive studies conducted by NORC annually since 1973, which has engaged the Violence Policy Center (VPC), based in Washington, however, reveals that the possession of weapons fire rate per household is decreasing . This percentage increased from 49.1% in 1973 (year of the first GSS) to 32.3% of US households in 2010.
The explanations for this decline are many: the aging of the population holding - mostly white men - and the lack of interest of younger generations for firearms; the end of military conscription; the decline in population in the hunting; limitations made to the activities of hunting and shooting in relation to environmental issues and planning; and the rising number of households with single mothers, women rarely hold a weapon.
30,000 DEAD BY GUN PER YEAR
Despite the significant drop in gun ownership interest per household, a constant number of victims by firearms was recorded. Between 2000 and 2008, 272,590 people died from injuries caused by firearms in the United States, according to figures from the WISQARS database of the American Center for Prevention and Disease Control and the National Center for prevention and control of injuries, quoted by the Violence Policy Center (VPC). On average, 30 288 people are killed each year by firearms.
More worrying, says the VPC, between 2000 and 2008, a total of 617,488 people were victims of firearm injuries in the United States, about 68,610 people a year. This number is steadily increasing in recent years, while improving care for wounded by emergency medical services has kept constant the number of deaths by firearms.
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