get down! orlando three tense horrifying hours. hands up! it was unimaginable. all units. newtown 27 people lost their lives. 20 of them young children. a mass shooting at a fourth of july parade. a shooting in highland park, illinois. why? why? those horrific events and so many others like them have come to define the united states. the most recent figures show that every day on average more than 100 people are killed with a gun in america. in total, there were over 19,000 gun murders and 24,000 gun suicides in 2020. compared to other rich countries america s gun violence is on another planet. the united states has eight times as many gun homicides per 100,000 people as canada, 50 times as many as germany and 100 times as many as the uk. these countries all face the same challenges with mental health. they all have the violent video games. other fashions pale in comparison when it comes to gun violence. another shooting, another angry young man. w
attack. las vegas the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history. get down! get down! orlando three tense horrifying hours. hands up! it was unimaginable. all units. newtown 27 people lost their lives. 20 of them young children. a mass shooting at a fourth of july parade. a shooting in highland park, illinois. why? why? those horrific events and so many others like them have come to define the united states. the most recent figures show that every day on average more than 100 people are killed with a gun in america. in total, there were over 19,000 gun murders and 24,000 gun suicides in 2020. compared to other rich countries america s gun violence is on another planet. the united states has eight times as many gun homicides per 100,000 people as canada, 50 times as many as germany and 100 times as many as the uk. these countries all face the same challenges with mental health. they all have the violent video games. but other nations pale in comp
sun, but it will be even warmer tomorrow. i ll have the details later here on breakfast. it s saturday 22 june. our main story: the search for a missing teenager enters its sixth day in tenerife. 19 year old jay slater was due to arrive home in lancashire yesterday after his holiday. rescue teams on the island still haven t found any trace of him. our correspondent fiona trott is in tenerife. this is the challenge they are facing. police are searching mountainous terrain above masca, dipping down into the ravine not far from where jay slater was last seen. watching on, concerned friends anxiously waiting for news. and the weight continues back home in lancashire. when you feel helpless thousands of miles away in oswaldtwistle, this is what you do. tie ribbons of hope. tie ribbons of hope. there s not much we can tie ribbons of hope. there s not much we can do tie ribbons of hope. there s not much we can do over tie ribbons of hope. there s not much we can do over here
being a prohibition against research from the cdc. we refer to this as the two-decade evidence desert. we were thwarted as a country to understanding what would be effective in saving lives. in 2019 there is funding provided. what changes? intervening events. we have significant, you know, unfortunately sort of frequent mass shootings and gun violence and then there s a massacre at parkland at the high school in florida. the students of parkland, much to their credit, started rallying and organizing with an agenda. on their agenda was restore federal funding for research at cdc. this became a rallying cry and president trump, much to his credit, issued an interpretation by his secretary of hhs that that amendment did not preclude research.
ownership question, in most states you don t have to register your guns. it s tough to say exactly how many guns are in circulation or who owns them. the problem goes deeper than that, to an act of congress that had a chilling effect on federal agencies keeping them from doing gun research for 20 years. what happened and why does it matter? former john j. college president works for a philanthropy where he s executive vice president of criminal justice. in the mid 1990s tell us what you re doing. i was nominated and confirmed to be the director of the national institute of justice in the clinton administration. that is the research arm of the justice department. it was at a time just to put it in context when rates of violence were going through the roof. the country was really in panic and one of the tasks we had under the 94 crime act was to conduct research on gun violence from the justice department. at the same time the centers for