First, it’s helpful to look at the breakdown of gun deaths in the US.Pew Researchis an excellent source for gun data and shows that the majority of gun deaths, about 54 percent, are suicides. Forty-three percent are murders and about 80 percent of all murders do involve a firearm. Bo...
Figure 2:12 month moving average of mass shooting casualties, per million population; deaths attributed to non-Muslims (dark red), wounded (pink); deaths attributed to Muslims (dark blue), wounded (light blue). May and June 2016 population extrapolated using May and June 2015 g...
The teen has been charged as an adult in the deaths of Apalachee High School students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14, and instructors Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Christina Irimie, 53, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said at a news conference. Getty Images A...
He said the agency has long suspected that its statistics on accidental firearms deaths are too low; the agency tracks deaths from accidental discharges of firearms but tallies only those that are officially classified that way by coroners on death certificates. Coroners categorize many such deaths ...
Death by bees Bees might seem like harmless, fuzzy pollinators, but alongside wasps and hornets, they are responsible fornearly 60 deaths a yearand hundreds of thousands of emergency room visits. Yourodds of dying from one of these stinging insectsis 1 in 59,507. ...
The undercount documented by the AP and USA TODAY Network is "significant and important," but not surprising, said the CDC's Anderson. He said the agency has long suspected that its statistics on accidental firearms deaths are too low; the agency tracks deaths from accidental discharges of fire...
Many of those killed last year in West Garfield Park were men in their twenties. But there were others whose deaths are perhaps less dismissable. Shamiya Adams, an 11-year-oldkilled by a bullet to the head as she sat in a friends bedroom making s’mores, could be one. Or 21-year-ol...