Gun violence: Prediction, prevention, and policy  https://www.apa.org/pubs/reports/gun-violence-prevention via @APA #SayNoToGuns

#News Breaking News #BreakingNews : A gunman killed 14 children and a teacher at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott said. The 18-year-old suspect was also killed. https://t.co/qsJmjDNdRp – @nytimes #NewYorkTimes

Peck, J and Goodman, J. (2022). Live Updates: ‘We Have to Act,’ President Biden Says After 19 Killed at Texas Elementary School. Available: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/05/24/us/shooting-robb-elementary-uvalde?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur. Last accessed 25th May 2022.

1) Americans own approximately 270 million guns, which gives America the highest rate of gun ownership with, 89 guns for every 100 people.

2) Approximately 20% of gun owners own 65% of the guns.

3) The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms reports that about 9.3 million firearms were manufactured in the United States in 2015.

Source from: Do something.Org {2022}

Women facing domestic violence and children are also disproportionately affected.

• In 2017, the number of children who died from firearm-related deaths in the USA rose to 1,814 from 1,637 in 2016.

• Between 2% and 7% of all injuries treated at US pediatric trauma centres are gun-related.

• Most children who are victims of firearm killings in the USA are from minority communities.

• Homicide is the second leading cause of death among black children and 65% of those killings are committed with guns.

• Mass shootings are typically defined as shootings where four or more victims are killed.

• In the USA, between 2009 and 2016, there were: 156 mass shootings with a total of 848 people killed and 339 injured Public mass shootings account for less than 1% of gun deaths in the USA.

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• Seventeen people died in the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, on 14 February 2018. 

Source from: Amnesty International {2022}

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