Gun Violence facts

While investigating facts about Gun Violence Statistics and Gun Violence In America, I found out little known, but curios details like:

Shot Spotter which is a gunfire detection system that can triangulate gunshots from within a 2 mile radius automatically and then alert Law Enforcement. Some cities are reporting a 35% decrease in gun related violence due to this system.

how gun violence affects society?

Since 1986, more than 40 people have been gunned down in workplace violence incidences by current or former US Postal workers. There has not been an incident since 2006

What country has the most gun violence?

In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what state has the most gun violence. Here are 21 of the best facts about Gun Violence By Country and Gun Violence By State I managed to collect.

what's gun violence?

1. The CDC is banned from doing research on gun violence

2. Bartex’s Red Army Vodka gift pack features a gun-shaped bottle of vodka and a glass grenade filled with a Russian herbal liqueur and six shot glasses typically retailing at around £100. It was banned and found in breach of UK alcohol marketing laws for its association to violence and aggression

3. The Onion has been posting the same article about gun violence after each new massacre lately.

4. Inmates at Sing Sing prison are trying to bring down gun violence on the streets

5. Over 35,000 Americans killed Every year in Act of Gun Violence - Im next ?

6. Since 1996, Congress has effectively banned the CDC from studying gun violence in its research. The ban emerged out of pressure from the NRA.

7. The NRA was originally founded by a New York Times journalist to make sure Northerners knew how to use long rifles in case the south tried to rise again. When Black Panthers started open carrying guns to stop police violence the NRA almost disbanded to support Gov. Ronald Reagan's Cali gun ban

8. 559 children aged 11 or under have been killed or injured in the United States in gun violence so far this year.

9. There is a yearbook for all the students who lost their lives to gun-violence before graduating high school

10. It is illegal in the US to perform research on gun-violence. This has prevented the study of the relationship between gun ownership and gun violence.

Gun Violence data charts

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Why gun violence should stop?

You can easily fact check why gun violence can't be our new normal by examining the linked well-known sources.

The CDC has been pressured into stopping research on the causes of gun violence since 1996

The number of guns in the US has increased by 100 million since 1993, and the rate of gun violence has decreased by 49 percent. - source

Contrary to popular belief, gun violence is statistically decreasing in the US - source

A Harvard Gun Study Claims Banning Weapons Doesn't Decrease Violence

Congress banned CDC Scientists from studying gun violence. - source

When did gun violence start?

A Harvard study shows no consistent significant positive association between gun ownership levels and violence rates

How gun violence is a public health issue?

Nearly 50x more Americans have been killed by domestic gun violence than by terrorism in the past decade (130,347 to 2,689)

About an ex con that tries to get people with beef to settle it at a regulated fight, rather than with gun violence

In 2013 the City of Dallas spent 350 times more to react to violence than the CDC did to study gun violence in the same year. (See section 1.28 Police Special Operations).

Gun violence infographics

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