A Doctor's Insights Into Gun Violence And Gun Laws Around The World
Vin Gupta, a critical-care physician with military experience and a scientist at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, talks about the U.S., Mexico, South Africa and Afghanistan.
Why is it that the U.S. is among the top 30 countries in the world with the highest rates of deaths from gun violence? At a rate of 4.43 deaths per 100,000 people, it is four times higher than the rates in war-torn Syria and Yemen.
In the aftermath of two mass shootings in less than 24 hours in the United States, we posed that question and others to , a critical-care at the University of Washington, which compiles comprehensive data on what it calls the "global burden of disease," including around the world.
