CJ 3542 Lecture 2: Lecture 2
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Good or bad hospital, how fast the ambulance gets there, quality of medical care, advances in medical technology, quality and amount of medical training that paramedics, police, and emts have, 911 system created in 1961, proliferation of cell phones, cellphone coverage, (over 70% of all 911 calls are made by cellphones-2014) Not recognizing as much of a decline of a rate of homicide because of firearms, #1 in the world for guns per capita, more guns than people in the us, 112. 6 guns for every 100. Those countries have extremely low rates of homicide. Owning a gun makes someone more prone to use it against someone. People are far more likely to commit homicide when they own a firearm. Shooting a gun has a certain detachment to it, emotionally remote. Nra fights against gun regulations even for mentally ill individuals. Intimate partner homicide happens indoors mostly when the partners are still together.
