Free Slugger Session Event on Tuesday the 28 May 2019: Gun Violence in America…
In this Slugger Session at Queen’s we will be in discussion with Elizabeth Charash on the topic of Gun Violence in America. Wide access to firearms and loose regulations lead to more than 39,000 men, women and children being killed with guns each year in the USA. In 2017, some 39,773 died from gunshot injuries, an average of nearly 109 people each day. Per capita, this is significantly higher than in other industrialized countries. Firearm homicides in the USA disproportionately …