Everytown for Gun Safety Unveils New Data and Web Page About American Gun Violence
8.9.2018
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8.9.2018
NEW YORK – Everytown for Gun Safety, the country’s largest gun violence prevention organization, today unveiled Gun Violence in America, a new resource compiling key statistics about gun violence and its reverberating impacts in the United States. Designed for journalists, policymakers and the general public, it includes, among other components:
“The most striking indication of the scale of our gun violence crisis may be the impact it has on the youngest Americans,” said Sarah Tofte, Everytown’s research director. “Firearms are now the second leading cause of death for children and teens in the U.S. – and the first leading cause for Black children and teens.”
Additional statistics include:
In creating the Gun Violence in America page, Everytown researchers looked at data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Justice, leading gun violence researchers and other sources, selecting statistics that offer insight into the scope and nature of American gun violence.
Selected screenshots from web page:
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Did you know?
Every day, 125 people in the United States are killed with guns, twice as many are shot and wounded, and countless others are impacted by acts of gun violence.
Everytown Research analysis of CDC, WONDER, Provisional Mortality Statistics, Multiple Cause of Death, 2019–2023; Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project nonfatal firearm injury data, 2020; and SurveyUSA, Market Research Study #26602, 2022.
Last updated: 11.8.2024
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