Gun Violence Research - Caleb Wildman

https://everytownresearch.org/gun-violence-by-the-numbers/

96 Americans killed every day with guns

7 are children or teens

62% of gun related deaths are suicides
Black men are thirteen times more likely to killed by guns than white men
For every one person killed with a gun, there are two more injured by guns

http://www.bradycampaign.org/key-gun-violence-statistics

116,255 people shot in American in an average year

includes murders, assaults, suicides, suicide attempts, unintentional shootings, and police shootings

27,000+ kids die from guns every year

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/10/06/555861898/gun-violence-how-the-u-s-compares-to-other-countries

US has 31st highest gun violence rate in the world
US has more gun violence than almost every country in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa, only beat by Iraq, Lesotho, South Africa, and Cape Verde
Gun violence rates expected to follow socioeconomic status

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