Friday, 17 October 2008

A few facts about gun crime in America

here are a few facts that i found on the internet that i thought might help us in two main reasons....firstly, they helped me put it into perspective and realise what a huge issue it is in the USA....also they might help us to create our final piece. here are the 5 best ones i found anyway.

Amy x

1. In the USA there are 200 million guns circulating....the population of the country is 300 million.

2. 1 child every 3 hours is killed by gun crime.

3. In one year, firearms killed 0 children in Japan, 19 in Great Britain, 57 in Germany, 109 in France and 5285 in USA.

4. 253 deaths occured in schools between 1994 and 1999 - 74.5% of which involved firearms.

5. in 1998, 3523 students were expelled for bringing firearms into school.

1 comment:

Chester University said...

Maybe we could take Amy's last fact and think about 'frisking' the audience