TREVARLAND
FOUNDATION
Raising Awareness of Gun Violence
Educate. Expose. Connect.
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:
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100 people are shot and killed
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210 survive gun injuries
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95 are injured in an attack
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61 die from suicide
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10 survive a suicide attempt
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1 is killed unintentionally
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90 are shot unintentionally
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1 is killed by legal intervention
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4 are shot by legal intervention
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1 died but the intent was unknown
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12 are shot but the intent was unknown
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In Arkansas
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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
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American Psychological Association, Gun Violence: Prevention, and Policy https://www.apa.org/pubs/info/reports/gun-violence-prevention
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Giffords, Courage to Fight Gun Violence, Urban Gun Violence https://giffords.org/issue/urban-gun-violence/
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Everytown, We Can End Gun Violence https://everytown.org/
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Brady, Key Gun Violence Statistics https://www.bradyunited.org/key-statistics
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Central Arkansas Chapter of Parents of Murdered Children https://www.cacofpomc.org/
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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
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Moms Demand Action, Together, We Will End Gun Violence https://momsdemandaction.org/
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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/
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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/