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GUN VIOLENCE AWARENESS

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GUN VIOLENCE STATISTICS   
WHY IT MATTERS

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https://www.livestories.com/statistics/arkansas/gun-firearm-violence-deaths-mortality

 

In the U.S.

 

Every day, 310 people are shot in the United States. 

Among those:

  • 100 people are shot and killed

  • 210 survive gun injuries

  • 95 are injured in an attack

  • 61 die from suicide

  • 10 survive a suicide attempt

  • 1 is killed unintentionally

  • 90 are shot unintentionally

  • 1 is killed by legal intervention

  • 4 are shot by legal intervention

  • 1 died but the intent was unknown

  • 12 are shot but the intent was unknown

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https://www.bradyunited.org/key-statistics

In Arkansas

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  1. American Psychological Association, National Gun Violence Awareness Day, also Known as Wear Orange Day https://www.apa.org/pi/about/newsletter/2016/05/gun-violence-awareness

  2. American Psychological Association, Gun Violence: Prevention, and Policy https://www.apa.org/pubs/info/reports/gun-violence-prevention

  3. Giffords, Courage to Fight Gun Violence, Urban Gun Violence    https://giffords.org/issue/urban-gun-violence/

  4. Everytown, We Can End Gun Violence https://everytown.org/

  5. Brady, Key Gun Violence Statistics          https://www.bradyunited.org/key-statistics

  6. Central Arkansas Chapter of Parents of Murdered Children   https://www.cacofpomc.org/

  7. ncfr, National Council on Family Relations, Gun Violence and the Minority Experience  https://www.ncfr.org/ncfr-report/winter-2018/gun-violence-and-minority-experience

  8. Moms Demand Action, Together, We Will End Gun Violence  https://momsdemandaction.org/

  9. The Trace, We Can’t End Inequality Until We Stop Urban Gun Violencehttps://www.thetrace.org/2019/07/we-cant-end-inequality-until-we-stop-urban-gun-violence/

  10. Pew Research Center, FactTank, What the Data Says About Gun Deaths in the U.S.                                                        https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/08/16/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/

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