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There have been more than 400 guns deaths since the Newtown massacre on December 14, according to a
new interactive project between Slate.com and the anonymous twitter user @gundeaths.
The two launched the project because, as Slate writes, there are few real-time chronicles of daily gun deaths in the United States, despite the daily mention of firearms and gun politics in the media since the shooting. In fact, the onslaught of reporting on guns has been so intense, The Huffington Post published an article this morning with the
headline "So You're Bored of the Newtown Massacre?"Gun deaths have been a daily reality since the Newtown massacre less than three weeks ago, with an average of 18 people dying each day as a result of a fatal shooting, according to the data compiled by @gundeaths. Six of those deaths have been children under the age of 13, and another 21 were youths under the age of 17.
The vast majority of people who have died as a result of gun violence since Newtown were men. Out of the 406 fatal shootings in @gundeaths compilation, only 49 of the victims were women. For teenagers, the gender gap is even starker: 19 boys and only 2 girls have died of gun-related violence since Newtown.
The anonymous twitter user @gundeaths began reporting every instance of a fatal shooting he could find after the Aurora, Colorado, mass shooting on July 20. His data set is incomplete, meaning that the number of gun deaths since Newtown likely exceeds 406.
The Huffington Post recently undertook a similar project, chronicling the first 100 gun deaths since the Sandy Hook massacre. According to their count,
the United States surpassed 100 gun deaths on December 21, exactly one week after Newtown.
Other nations have experienced similar mass shootings in their histories. But nearly all have passed considerable gun safety legislation in the wake of their tragedies, which has dramatically reduced the number of future gun-related deaths.
The United States leads the world in having the most number of
guns per person.
Just make it illegal to own a gun. (Come try and take mine)
Look how great other simular laws are working.
Stand up for your Rights!
We can not afford to enforce the laws we have now.
Let alone a total or partial ban on guns.
This issue will bankrupt our country and cause a new Civil War.
Please wake up and realize that our form of government is not broken, just the election process is what wrong.
When a company or group of companies can purchase the vote the average citizen loses.
BTW
In 2009, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 66.9% of all homicides in the United States were perpetrated using a firearm. There were 52,447 deliberate and 23,237 accidental non-fatal gunshot injuries in the United States during 2000. Just over half of all gun-related deaths in the United States are suicides, with 17,352 (55.6%) of the total 31,224 firearm-related deaths in 2007 suicide deaths, and 12,632 (40.5%) homicide deaths. Some suicides are committed after the perpetrator has committed one or more murders.
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"The total number of school shootings each year is typically far less than one day's toll attributable to firearms in the United States," notes David Hemenway, director of the Harvard Injury Research and Control Center. "Defective Firestone tires may have killed 103 people over a number of years, but firearms kill about 85 people every day in this country."
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So the statics in this story are BELOW average.