The numbing parade of mass shootings in the USA—like the one in Las Vegas that left at least 59 people dead—has often obscured the gun debate's open secret: horrific, attention-grabbing, mass shootings represent only a small minority of gun deaths each year. Two-thirds of all gun ...
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Deaths by suicide have made up the vast majority of gun violence deaths this year. There's been 22,506 deaths by gun suicide this year, an average of about 66 deaths by suicide per day in 2023. The majority of these deaths have occurred in Texas, California, Florida, Georgia, North Car...
A new study shows that guns are responsible for about 250,000 deaths worldwide every year. It also found that the United States is among just six countries in which half of all gun deaths take place. The findings are from one of the most wide-reaching investigations of gun deaths to date...
While deaths to children under the age of 10 did rise, the majority of the increase in injury-related deaths occurred among adolescents and teens ages 10 to 19. Boys were almost twice as likely to die as girls (35.2 deaths vs 19.3 deaths per 100,000, respectively). That...
comprehensive estimate of firearm deaths. In keeping with the CDC’s practice, deaths of non-U.S. residents that take place in the U.S. (about 50 per year) are excluded. All figures are averages from the years 2012 to 2014, except for police shootings of civilians, which are from ...
Each year in the United States, more than 30 000 individuals are killed by guns1 (homicides, suicides, and unintentional fatalities)—85 deaths per day plus many hundreds of nonfatal injuries. Gun homicide alone causes 11 000 deaths each year,1 more than all US troops killed throughout the...
A new study says the U.S. gun death rate last year hit its highest mark in nearly three decades. And the rate among women has been growing faster than that of men.
Children ages 1 to 19 die from guns more than anything else in the US, studies show. Children, in general, faced the highest gun violence mortality rate among peer countries by far. In the US, there were 36.4 deaths per million people ages 1 to 19; in Canada, its 6...