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Gun death rates per 100,000 people Location Gun suicide rate Suicide rate Gun homicide rate Homicide rate % gun at home United States 7.9: 14.5: 6.3: 7.8 [a] Wyoming 23.7: 32.8
In 2019, there were 417 such assaults. In 2020, there were 610—nearly two mass shootings per day—killing 513 people and injuring 2,543. But mass shootings represent a tiny fragment of the problem.
From 1979 to 2005, the number of deaths per year decreased 15% while the number of deaths per capita decreased by 35%. The 32,479 traffic fatalities in 2011 were the lowest in 62 years, since 1949. [5] For 2016, the NHTSA reported 37,461 people killed in 34,436 fatal motor vehicle crashes, an average of 102 per day. [6]
A map compares the rates of mass shootings per capita in each state, based on a new study of gun violence data. ... D.C., was even higher — 10.4 shootings for every 100,000 people — though it ...
An earlier report had indicated that in 2015 alone, there had been 294 mass shootings that killed or injured 1,464 people. [171] Shooting Tracker and Mass Shooting Tracker, the two sites that the media have been citing, have been criticized for using a criterion much more inclusive than that used by the government—they count four victims ...
Both CNN and GVA define a “mass shooting” as a shooting that injured or killed four or more people, not including the shooter. Here’s how many mass shootings took place in 2023 compared with ...
Deadliest mass shootings in the United States Rank Peak Incident Location Deaths Injuries Year Ref; 1 1 Las Vegas shooting† Paradise, Nevada: LV 60 LV ≈ 867 2017 [1] 2 1 Pulse nightclub shooting† Orlando, Florida: 49 P 58 2016 [2] 3 1 Virginia Tech shooting† Blacksburg, Virginia: 32 VT 23 2007 [3] 4 2 Sandy Hook Elementary School ...
The dangerous pace of mass shootings escalated in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic and has persisted since then. Between 2019 and 2020, the total number of mass shootings each year jumped from ...