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The staggering toll of gun violence in the United States

Towleroad May 26, 2022 Leave a Comment

 
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Seven thousand pairs of shoes, representing the children killed by gun violence between the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 and 2017, are spread out on the lawn on the east side of the US Capitol in Washington in March 2018

Washington (AFP) – Only five months into 2022, more than 17,000 people, including 650 children, have been shot and killed in the United States.

The toll of gun violence in America is staggering, according to figures compiled by organizations pushing for stricter regulation of firearms sales.

  • 111 deaths per day – 

Nearly 41,000 people are killed by gun violence every year in the United States on average, according to the organization Everytown for Gun Safety, translating to 111 victims every day. 

In Texas, where the sale of personal firearms is only marginally regulated, an average of more than 3,600 people are killed by guns every year, according to Everytown. 

Since the beginning of 2022, at least 17,199 people have been killed by guns, according to a count by the Gun Violence Archive. 

About 7,600 of them were victims of homicide, either purposeful or accidental, and more than 9,500 died by suicide. 

In 2021, more than 45,000 gun deaths were recorded, including 20,920 murders — the highest since 2017, when around 58,000 people were killed, according to the Gun Violence Archive. 

Shootings also leave other casualties: In the last six months, some 14,000 people have been wounded by a gun. 

  • The youngest victims – 

Children are not spared when it comes to the cost of US gun violence. 

Even when they are not the direct targets of violence, such as in Tuesday's massacre at a school in Uvalde, Texas, they can become the collateral victims of stray bullets or accidental discharges.

So far in 2022, some 640 minors have been shot and killed, and more than double that number — 1,594 — have been injured. 

Of that number, 140 of the children killed — and nearly 300 of those injured — have been age 11 or younger. 

Last year, 1,560 kids were killed and more than 4,000 wounded.

More than one mass shooting per day

There have been 213 known mass shootings in the United States in the first 145 days of 2022, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which categorizes such incidents as ones in which there are four or more people killed or wounded, not including the shooter.

“There have been more mass shootings than days in the year,” Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy said in Congress Tuesday. He represents the district where Sandy Hook elementary school, where 26 kids and teachers were killed in 2012, is located. It was the nation's worst ever school shooting.

There were 692 mass shootings in 2021, the most since 2014, when the Gun Violence Archive began keeping records. 

Record homicides

In a country where firearms are easily bought and sold and laws vary by state, 2020 saw 19,350 shooting murders, a historic high — 35 percent more than in 2019 — and 24,245 suicides — 1.5 percent more than 2019 — according to statistics compiled by US health authorities. 

The homicide rate reached 6.1 per 100,000 residents in 2020, a 25-year record, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in a report published this month, though the toll was still not as high as the peak of the 1980s. 

Officials speculated that the struggles of poverty and the Covid-19 pandemic could have contributed to the spike. 

390 million guns

The right to bear arms is guaranteed in the second amendment of the US Constitution, and the number of pistols, revolvers and other gun types has increased in recent years. 

More than 23 million guns were sold in 2020, a record, and almost 20 million in 2021, according to numbers published by the site Small Arms Analytics. 

According to another project called the Small Arms Survey, 393.3 million firearms were in circulation throughout the United States in 2020 — or about 120 guns for every 100 people. 

And an unknown number of “ghost guns” — sold piece by piece and without serial numbers — must be added to that count. 

In June 2021, 30 percent of American adults said they owned at least one firearm, according to a survey by Pew Research Center. 

Topics: Aaon, A News, Health More Posts About: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chris Murphy, Covid-19, Everytown for Gun Safety, Gun Violence Archive, Pew Research Center

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