Gun Violence By State Map
Zoom in all the way and you see the incidents scarring a single block.
Gun violence by state map. The map showed us things we hadn t realized about gun violence. Gun violence by state map. An unfortunate and backwards truth in the united states is that young black boys are the most likely people to experience gun violence. On the topic of gun related injuries a lot of cases of gun violence involve serious assault even though homicides are not the final outcome.
The gun murders in 2010 from fbi uniform crime reporting ucr program was 8 775. Population total was 320 9 million. This article is a list of the u s. Using the map s search function you can see the shootings that gun violence archive has documented for an entire city or state or within a mile of a specific address.
The map is powered by data collected by gun violence archive a nonprofit site that tracks incidents of gun violence in the united states. The map overlays the map of firearm deaths above with gun control restrictions by state. At least 20 people have been killed in eastern burkina. End gun violence states map.
Gun control is one of the most widely debated topics in the united states although deadly mass shootings occur seemingly one after another they represent only a small fraction of the total firearms related deaths in the country. The murder rates and gun murder rates were calculated based on the fbi reports. States and the district of columbia with population murders and non negligent manslaughter murders gun murders and gun ownership percentage then calculated rates per 100 000. Visit our merch store.
Census bureau murder rates were calculated based on the fbi uniform crime reports and the estimated 2015 population of each state. Authorities have not offered a possible motive for the crimes. How many people own guns in your state. But this may be the first step toward a fix.
The official population of each state for 2010 and gun ownership rates were added for context. Alaska alabama and louisiana all have high rates of gun violence. And so while texas doesn t have the highest. Virginia s gun rights battle spawned the second amendment sanctuary movement from ken perrotte on may 20 2020 for recoil.
Our readers learned things from it as well. It is fifteen times more likely that a black male. One of the victims was a high school friend of manfredonia s. You still can t rely on cdc s gun injury numbers.
In 2017 nearly 40 000 people died due to injury to firearms including the accidental or negligent discharge of a firearm suicides homicides and others. Fight injustice and help create a world where human rights are enjoyed by all. A new database offers several decades of household firearm ownership estimates. Race becomes a serious main player when looking into the victims and perpetrators of gun violence in america both on a state by state basis and a nationwide level.
The population data is from the u s. Sign up to take action. Reporting by the trace and fivethirtyeight has spurred an independent review of a federal database used to. Overall murder and non negligent manslaughter.
I want to help pass gun violence prevention laws in my state of i m a memberof an aiusa student or local group. I m interested in receiving updates on the end gun violence campaign. Data shows gun violence outpacing other types of crime in several major cities and running higher than 2019 levels nationally. The total number of murders from all weapons was 12 996.