Gun Violence By the Numbers
For decades we’ve heard that 30,000 to 40,000 Americans are killed by gun violence. And year after year we have come to accept this data as the reason for our gun problem. No doubt the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, last weekend will accentuate the frenzy. Taking a closer look at the numbers, though, rougly 29,250 of those fatalities are suicides, 1,612 are law enforcement shootings in the line of duty, 274 are negligent discharge deaths and 8,863 are murders via criminal activity or mentally ill people. Breaking down the 8,863 further, 25 percent of the murders take place in four cities: Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit and Washington, D.C., where a vast majority of the violence is concentrated in poverty stricken underdeveloped neighborhoods that have had the same leadership for decades who refuse to solve the problem. Get more facts from civil rights lawyer and activist Colion Noir.
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