Tag: guns

Firearm Mortality Rate, Deaths by State: Map

Mary Pat Campbell

Link: https://www.governing.com/now/Firearm-Mortality-Rate-Deaths-by-State-Map.html

Graphic:

Excerpt:

But when firearm mortality is viewed state by state, a strong variation emerges. Using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Massachusetts had the lowest death rate of just 3.4 per 100,000 in 2019, the latest year data is available. Alaska and Mississippi are tied for the highest: 24 deaths per 100,000. The following map and table provide specific numbers for each state.

Publication Date: 24 March 2021

Publication Site: Governing

2020 Will End as One of America’s Most Violent Years in Decades

Mary Pat Campbell

Link: https://time.com/5922082/2020-gun-violence-homicides-record-year/

Excerpt:

This year, many Americans have experienced significantly higher levels of violence both wrought on and within their communities. Gun violence and gun crime has, in particular, risen drastically, with over 19,000 people killed in shootings and firearm-related incidents in 2020. That’s the highest death toll in over 20 years, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), an online site that collects gun violence data, and the Britannia Group’s non-partisan site procon.org.

This total includes victims of homicides and unintentional deaths but does not include gun suicides. And despite there being no “large-scale” shootings in 2020, the number of mass shootings—which are classified as an incident in which four or more people are shot and injured or killed—has actually risen, drastically, to over 600, the most in the past 5 years and a nearly 50% increase in 2019’s total.

Author(s): Josiah Bates

Publication Date: 30 December 2020

Publication Site: Time