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Gun violence is violence committed with the use of a gun (firearm or small arm). It may or may not be considered criminal. Criminal gun violence includes homicide (except when and where ruled justifiable), assault with a deadly weapon, and suicide, or attempted suicide, depending on jurisdiction. Non-criminal gun violence may include accidental or unintentional injury or death. Included in this subject are statistics regarding military or para-military activities, as well as the actions of civilians. According to GunPolicy.org, 75 percent of the world's 875 million guns are civilian controlled.〔 Globally, millions are wounded through the use of guns. Assault by firearm resulted in 180,000 deaths in 2013 up from 128,000 deaths in 1990. There was an additionally 47,000 unintentional firearm deaths in 2013.〔 Levels of gun violence vary greatly among geographical regions, countries, and even subnationally.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Global Study on Homicide 2011 )〕 The United States has the highest rate of gun related deaths per capita among developed countries, though it also has the highest rate of gun ownership and the highest rate of officers. ==Definitions== According to a 2007 paper by Krause and Muggah, the homicides were in an ''armed'' violence. They cite the World Health Organization definition of violence: The intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, that either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment or deprivation.Krause and Muggah clarify that arms include bladed weapons, blunt objects, explosives, and other instruments, but that guns (in their paper, small arms and light weapons) "are disproportionately used to commit violence" worldwide. They break armed violence into five categories: inter-personal, collective, criminal, conflict, and institutional (or state). In the United States, the term "gun crime" was common, especially in the years leading up to the passage of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994, which expired in 2004. Since then, "gun violence" is the commonly used term. Gun Rights advocates do not use the term Gun Violence as they see this as ignoring violence that stems from non-Gun related sources. They also mention that no such term exists for other forms of "armed violence" such as "Knife Violence" or "Bludgeoning Instrument Violence." Numerous different terms have been proposed by supporters of Gun Control with the aim of "...looking for a less politically charged term for firearm regulation..." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gun violence」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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