2025年3月5日 · Nearly 47,000 people died of gun-related injuries in the United States in 2023, according to the latest available statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While the number of gun deaths in the U.S. fell for the second consecutive year, it remained among the highest annual totals on record.

Gun violence is a term of political, economic and sociological interest referring to the tens of thousands of annual firearms-related deaths and injuries occurring in the United States. [2] In 2016, a U.S. male aged 15–24 was 70 times more likely to be killed with a gun than a French male or British male. [3]

In 2022, 48,204 people died due to gun violence in the U.S., the second highest total ever recorded. Each day, an average of 132 people died from gun violence—one death every 11 minutes. The overall gun death rate declined 2.7% between 2021 …

2024年9月12日 · The gun homicide rate among Black children and teens rose 5.6 percent from 2021 to 2022. The rate of gun suicide among Black older teens and emerging adults, ages 15 to 19, rose sharply—24 percent year-over-year—surpassing the gun suicide rate among white teens in that age range for the first time.

In 2022, there were more than 48,000 firearm-related deaths in the United States according to mortality data. That's about 132 people dying from a firearm-related injury each day. More than half of firearm-related deaths were suicides and more than four out of …

For the third straight year, firearms killed more children and teens, ages 1 to 17, than any other cause including car crashes and cancer. Our analysis found 48,204 people, the second highest on record, died from gunshots in the U.S. in 2022, including 27,032 suicides, an all-time high for the country. Full Report Read More 2023 Provisional Data.

2022年5月26日 · By enacting simple laws that make guns safer and harder to get, we can prevent killings like the ones in Uvalde and Buffalo

Gun-related violence is violence against a person committed with the use of a firearm to inflict a gunshot wound. Gun violence may or may not be considered criminal. Criminal violence includes homicide (except when and where ruled justifiable) and assault with a deadly weapon.

2016年7月12日 · These statistics come from a new edition of Dennis A. Henigan’s book, “Guns Don’t Kill People, People Kill People” and Other Myths About Guns and Gun Control, which compares our failed attempts at gun control to the success of policies aimed at the automobile. Over the past 50 years, as Henigan points out, “the number of motor-vehicle ...

Handguns are involved in 46% of all homicides in the United States. Though used less frequently, larger caliber bullets result in more fatalities per shot. Medium caliber bullets are used in more crimes, but have lower death rates compared to larger calibers.