This comparative review finds that gun violence across Punjab, Chicago, Rio, Lesotho and Mexico tracks poverty, policing failures, criminal-market shifts and weapon flows rather than musical genres, showing that censoring songs does nothing to reduce homicides while investments in institutional capacity, prevention and gun-supply controls do.

Dr Ieva Jusionyte, a legal and medical anthropologist at Brown University, discusses her book “Exit Wounds,” which explores how the smuggling of guns from the United States to Mexico contributes to violence and the migrant crisis, drawing on extensive research and fieldwork at the US-Mexico border.

In a landmark ruling, an Arizona federal court has decided that Mexico can move forward with its lawsuit against U.S. gun stores and distributors, accusing them of facilitating firearms trafficking to cartels.