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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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