{"id":768,"date":"2013-01-25T20:51:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T19:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/?p=768"},"modified":"2013-01-25T20:51:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T19:51:46","slug":"firearm-death-in-us-cities-a-global-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2013\/01\/25\/firearm-death-in-us-cities-a-global-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Firearm death in US cities &#8211; a global perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Atlantic\u00a0Cities blog has an interesting\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/politics\/2013\/01\/gun-violence-us-cities-compared-deadliest-nations-world\/4412\/\">analysis\u00a0of firearm homicide rates in US cities<\/a> compared to the firearm homicide rate of nations traditionally\u00a0described\u00a0as &#8220;violent.&#8221; Results are presented as a graphic.<\/p>\n<p>I was stunned by the observation that &#8220;if New Orleans was a country,&#8221; it would have the second highest firearm death rate in\u00a0the\u00a0world.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Atlantic\u00a0Cities blog has an interesting\u00a0analysis\u00a0of firearm homicide rates in US cities compared to the firearm homicide rate of nations traditionally\u00a0described\u00a0as &#8220;violent.&#8221; Results are presented as a graphic. I was stunned by the observation that &#8220;if New Orleans was a country,&#8221; it would have the second highest firearm death rate in\u00a0the\u00a0world. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2013\/01\/25\/firearm-death-in-us-cities-a-global-perspective\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2731],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}