{"id":45853,"date":"2023-07-22T22:44:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T22:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=45853"},"modified":"2023-07-22T22:44:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T22:44:21","slug":"united-states-murders-per-year-via-firearms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/united-states-murders-per-year-via-firearms\/","title":{"rendered":"United States: murders per year via firearms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about the US: the tutor mentions a statistic that surprises him.<\/h2>\n<p>\nApparently, there are 33 gun murders per day in the US. If I&#8217;m not mistaken, that suggests over 12,000 murders via firearm per year in the US.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe population of the US is now over 330 million. Therefore, it seems that, out of every 330,000 people in the US, 12 will be murdered by a gun in the course of a year.<\/p>\n<p>\nSurprising, eh?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/article\/the-bureau-and-the-bureau\/\">americanprogress.org<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about the US: the tutor mentions a statistic that surprises him. Apparently, there are 33 gun murders per day in the US. If I&#8217;m not mistaken, that suggests over 12,000 murders via firearm per year in the US. The &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/united-states-murders-per-year-via-firearms\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">United States: murders per year via firearms<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3086],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45855,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45853\/revisions\/45855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}