372: Number of mass shootings in the U.S. in 2015, according to data from Mass Shooting Tracker, which defines a mass shooting as an incident in which at least four people are killed or wounded. Last year, 475 people were killed and 1,870 were wounded.
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15: Number of minutes that passed in 2016 before the first shooting of the year occurred — at 12:15 am on Jan. 1, 2016.
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27: Number of Americans killed in shooting incidents on Christmas day last year, equal to the total number of people killed in gun homicides in Austria, New Zealand, Norway, Slovenia, Bermuda, Estonia, Iceland and Hong Kong, combined.
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60: Percentage of people killed by guns who die by suicide. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide is the second-most common cause of death for Americans between ages 15 and 34. Across all age groups, it ranks as the 10th most common cause of death.
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16.4: Average number of “active shooting incidents” — individuals killing or trying to kill people in a populated area — per year between 2007 and 2013, up from 6.4 between 2000 and 2007.
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2.97: Gun homicides per 100,000 people in the U.S. in 2012, compared to 0.51 in Canada, 0.19 in Germany, 0.14 in Australia, 0.07 in England and Wales and 0.06 in France, according to data compiled by The Guardian.
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19.5/1: Ratio of people killed by firearms in the U.S. compared to other countries in the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, according to a 2011 UCLA School of Public Health study. For 15-to-24-year-olds, firearm homicide rates are 42.7 times higher in the U.S. than in other OECD countries.
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Seriously? What is your child was in Sandy Hook and you lost your 6 year old daughter to a lunatic who shouldn’t have access to a gun?
If you are a legal gun owner, you wouldn’t want some whack job or criminal to use guns and cast a shadow on legal gun owners. Take a stand for common sense.
From December 2012 to December 2013, at least 100 children were killed in unintentional shootings — almost two each week, 61 percent higher than federal data reflect. About two-thirds of these unintended deaths — 65 percent — took place in a home or vehicle that belonged to the victim’s family, most often with guns that were legally owned but not secured. More than two-thirds of these tragedies could be avoided if gun owners stored their guns responsibly and prevented children from accessing them.
85: Percentage of Americans say they favor expanding background checks for gun buyers, according to a Pew Research Center poll conducted in July 2015. Both Democrats (88 percent) and Republicans (79 percent) supported the idea. Yet it doesn’t happen. You know why?
Because the entire argument is high jacked by one group of extremist views.
$17 million: Amount of money the NRA spent on the 2012 presidential and congressional elections.
And we are all hostage because we refuse to call them out. I am not against 2nd amendment. But I am against high powered semi automatic slaughter machines. I am against mentally unstable people and criminals getting hold of guns. I am against children getting their hand on guns. I am for research on improving gun safety and research on gun led deaths. Isn’t that common sense.
We will be victims of more violence. And we will hear the same old argument back in news …But Guns are not a problem.
Source: http://everytownresearch.org/reports/innocents_lost/
