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Students demonstrate against gun violence and call for gun law reform during The March For Our Lives walkout at the state capitol Monday, April 3, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn.
While the office doesn't make gun laws, or even enforce them, it serves as a clearinghouse for the administration's messaging and policymaking on gun violence. The office launched a resource ...
States are continuing to drift further apart on gun policies, and a new report by a gun violence prevention advocate found that many states with the toughest restrictions had lower rates of gun ...
HuffPost looked at how killers got their guns for the 10 deadliest mass shootings over the past 10 years. To come up with the list, we used Mother Jones’ database, which defines mass shootings as “indiscriminate rampages in public places” that kill three or more people.
This is a list of US states by gun deaths and rates of violence. In 2021, there were 26,000 gun suicides and 21,000 gun homicides, together making up a sixth of deaths from external causes. Gun deaths make up about half of all suicides, but over 80% of homicides. [5] Gun deaths in 2021 rose to levels not seen since the 1990s, but remained below ...
The partnership did not last long; the NCBH, renamed in 1990 as the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV), generally advocates for stricter gun laws than does the Brady Campaign. [5]: 111–112 [6] HCI had few resources until 1980, after the murder of musician John Lennon increased the public's interest in shootings. By 1981, HCI's membership ...
Several different inclusion criteria are used; there is no generally accepted definition. [2] [3] Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit research group that tracks shootings and their characteristics in the United States, defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people, excluding the perpetrator(s), are shot in one location at roughly the same time. [4]
Gun violence is a national crisis and now the leading cause of death for American kids and teens. More than 125 people die each day. That doesn’t account for the tens of thousands more who, like ...