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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI would be interested to see statistics on
gun deaths by state, according to each state's gun laws.
Pantagruel
(2,580 posts)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)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)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 FBIs 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.
thatdemguy
(453 posts)This breaks it down to the worst cities and does list murders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate