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I would be interested to see statistics on (Original Post) cilla4progress May 2022 OP
Not really relevant Pantagruel May 2022 #1
Also 3auld6phart May 2022 #2
This website has some info thatdemguy May 2022 #3
crime rates in the worst 100 cities thatdemguy May 2022 #4
 

Pantagruel

(2,580 posts)
1. Not really relevant
Wed May 25, 2022, 12:56 PM
May 2022

as long as a state with strict gun laws is right next a state with lax laws. Examples Illinois next to Indiana or CA next to Nevada.

3auld6phart

(1,053 posts)
2. Also
Wed May 25, 2022, 01:02 PM
May 2022

add some countries to your list. It would be very interesting.
Other countries have in the past had problems of this nature
but enacted some measures of gun laws. And they are still
there, no civil disruptions. More or less peaceful.

thatdemguy

(453 posts)
3. This website has some info
Wed May 25, 2022, 01:56 PM
May 2022

The problem with the info is they lump in suicide with the numbers, which per the article is 54% of them.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/

a snip

Definitions can vary depending on factors including the number of victims and the circumstances of the shooting.

The FBI collects data on “active shooter incidents,” which it defines as “one or more individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area.” Using the FBI’s definition, 38 people – excluding the shooters – died in such incidents in 2020.

The Gun Violence Archive, an online database of gun violence incidents in the U.S., defines mass shootings as incidents in which four or more people are shot, even if no one was killed (again excluding the shooters). Using this definition, 513 people died in these incidents in 2020.


it also states further down
In 2020, handguns were involved in 59% of the 13,620 U.S. gun murders and non-negligent manslaughters for which data is available, according to the FBI. Rifles – the category that includes guns sometimes referred to as “assault weapons” – were involved in 3% of firearm murders.


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