Number of homicides by firearm in the U.S. 2006-2023 Homicide by firearm rate in the U.S. 2018-2022 Firearm homicide rate U.S. 2021, by race and gender Gun homicide rate U.S. 2021, by race and age Murders involving firearms in the U.S. 2023, by state Top cities with largest in...
By Sue Owen December 7, 2013 Running for lieutenant governor, Jerry Patterson claims in an online campaign video that not only did predictions of "blood in the streets" fail to come true, but firearms homicides fell 40 percent after a 1996 law allowed eligible Texans to get licenses to...
The findings confirm the transplantation paradox hypothesis that stricter gun control laws reduce the expected cases of gun homicides and thereby reduce deceased organ donor supply and exacerbate the organ shortage. The findings are robust to several measures of the strength of gun control laws, ...
HB 1386 creates an additional 11% excise tax on the sale of all ammunition in the state. Firearms and ammunition are already subject to an 11% federal excise tax through the Pittman-Robertson Act, along with a variety of other state and local taxes and fees. The NRA has current litigation...
Sex crimes carry an especially high degree of social stigma and suspicion, more so than almost any other crime. In fact, Sex crimeconvictions can be punished as harshly as some murders or homicides. Almost always, the defendant must register as a sexoffender which can extend the punishment lon...
And now, thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, I am one step closer to carrying one. …I…understand why some of my fellow liberals would like to ban guns outright. But guns are already prevalent among those who don’t follow ...
According to research by the CDC, between 2019 and 2020, gun homicides nationwide rose from 14,392 to 19,350, with the occurrence rate up from 4.6 to 6.1 per 100,000 people, a 34.6 percent increase.?Of the 90,498 gun-related deaths in 2020 and 2021, 38,796 were murders, among ...
—Unintentional deaths, suicides, and homicides due to firearms. Results. —Laws that make gun owners responsible for storing firearms in a manner that makes them inaccessible to children were in effect for at least 1 year in 12 states from 1990 through 1994. Among children younger than 15 yea...
There were 572,537 total gun deaths between 1999 and 2016: 336,579 suicides (58.8% of total gun deaths); 213,175 homicides (37.2%); and 11,428 unintentional deaths (2.0%). Guns were the leading cause of death by homicide (67.7% of all homicides) and by suicide (51.8% of all suicid...
An analysis of child and youth deaths from 2002 to 2012 shows at least 28,000 children and teens 19-years-old and younger were killed with guns. Most of those were homicides, followed by suicides and accidents. Gun suicides Americans are twice as likely to die from turning guns on themselv...