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Term | Definition | Rating |
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V | Violence | |
VAW | Violence Against Women | |
DV | Domestic Violence | |
IPV | Intimate Partner Violence | |
IPV | Intimate Partner Violence | |
FVPF | Family Violence Prevention Fund | |
NCADV | National Coalition Against Domestic Violence | |
NDVH | National Domestic Violence Hotline | |
VPC | Violence Policy Center | |
AVP | Alternatives to Violence Project | |
SAVE | Students Against Violence Everywhere | |
SAVE | Students Against Violence Everywhere | |
AVP | Anti-Violence Project | |
CSGV | Coalition to Stop Gun Violence | |
FV | Fantasy Violence | |
CUAV | Community United Against Violence | |
UV | Ultra Violence | |
VOV | Victory Over Violence | |
STV | Stop The Violence | |
VOV | Victory Over Violence | |
VOV | Victory Over Violence | |
DVAM | Domestic Violence Awareness Month | |
WADV | Women Against Domestic Violence | |
TCFV | Texas Council on Family Violence | |
SAVE | Strategies Against Violence Everywhere |
What does gun violence mean?
- Gun violence
- Gun-related violence is violence committed with the use of a gun (firearm or small arm). Gun-related violence may or may not be considered criminal. Criminal violence includes homicide (except when and where ruled justifiable), assault with a deadly weapon, and suicide, or attempted suicide, depending on jurisdiction. Non-criminal violence includes accidental or unintentional injury and death (except perhaps in cases of criminal negligence). Also generally included in gun violence statistics are military or para-military activities. According to GunPolicy.org, 75 percent of the world's 875 million guns are civilian controlled. Roughly half of these guns (48 percent) are in the United States, which has the highest rate of gun ownership in the world. Globally, millions are wounded and killed by the use of guns. Assault by firearm resulted in 180,000 deaths in 2013 up from 128,000 deaths in 1990. There were additionally 47,000 unintentional firearm-related deaths in 2013.Levels of gun-related violence vary greatly among geographical regions, countries, and even subnationally. Rates of violent deaths by firearm range from as low as 0.03 and 0.04 per 100,000 population in Singapore and Japan, to 59 and 67 per 100,000 in Honduras and Venezuela. The highest rates of violent deaths by firearm in the world occur in low-income South and Central American countries such as Honduras, Venezuela, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala and Jamaica. The United States has the 11th highest rate of gun violence in the world, and by far the largest of any large or highly developed nation, having a gun homicide rate which is 25 times higher, an unintentional gun death rate which is 6 times higher, a firearm suicide rate which is 8 times higher, and an overall firearm death rate which is 10 times higher than the average respective rates of other high income nations. Compared to similarly wealthy nations with strict gun control laws, such as Japan, the United Kingdom, or South Korea, the United States has an overall rate of firearms death per capita, which is 50–100 times greater than many of its peers. The high rates of gun violence in the United States, which has the highest rate of gun-related deaths per capita among developed countries, despite having the highest number of police officers, is sometimes thought to be attributable to its extreme rate of gun ownership, as it is the only nation in which guns exceed people. Nearly all studies have found a positive association between gun ownership and gun-related homicide and suicide rates.According to the United Nations, deaths from small firearms exceed that of all other weapons combined, and more die each year from gun-related violence than did in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. The global death toll from use of guns may number as high as 1,000 dead each day.
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