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The nearly 40,000 Americans killed each year since 2016 by gun violence exceed the number of people killed by car accidents (39,000), despite the fact that in 2017 there were 221.7 million ...
English: Scatterplot of gun deaths per 100,000 population, versus household firearm ownership rate, by state, United States Data sources: Mortality data from Firearm Mortality by State. cdc.gov. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics (2022). Archived from the original on June 3, 2023. "The number of ...
Gun-related suicides and homicides in the United States [1] Gun deaths in U.S. in proportional relationship to total population (2012 analysis, based on 2008 data). Gun violence is a term of political, economic and sociological interest referring to the tens of thousands of annual firearms-related deaths and injuries occurring in the United States.
Gun suicide rate by state (2021) [5] Gun homicide rate by state (2021) [5] Gun death rate by county (2023) [8] Data are from the CDC and are for the year 2021. [5] Rates are per 100,000 inhabitants. Gun ownership estimates are from the RAND Corporation. [9]
Roughly 7.5 million American adults became new gun owners during the pandemic, and most of them had previously lived in a home without a gun, according to data from the 2021 National Firearms Survey.
A report on U.S. gun violence in 2021 by the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions found that states with the highest gun death rates "tend to be states in the South or Mountain West ...
From 1994 to 2023, gun ownership increased 28% in America. In 2023, about 16.7 million firearms were sold in the U.S. In the first four months of 2024, nearly 5.5 million firearms were sold, averaging around 1.3 million per month. About 72% of gun owners say they own a gun primarily for protection. [3]
But with an estimated 62 guns per 100 people, its gun ownership rate is almost half that of the US. Yemen – a country in the throes of a seven-year conflict – has the third-highest gun ...