8. Intentional, Assault 70%, approx 46,900 per year (1)(2) or 3.89% of total Aggravated Assaults (total of 1,203,808) (13)
9. Unintentional, 20% approx 13,400 per year (1)(2)
10. Intentional, non-assault 10% approx 6,700 per year (1)(2)
11. 39,740 in 2018 (1)
12. Citations: (1) Centers for Disease Control (2020). Violence Prevention, Fast Facts. Retrieved from: Firearm Violence Prevention |Violence Prevention|Injury Center|CDCMinusSASstats (2) Fowler, K (2015, October). Firearm injuries in the United States. HHS Public Access. Vol 79, p 5-14. Retrieved from: https://www.ncbi. nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4700838/ (3) National Institute of Mental Health. (2020). Suicide. Retrieved from https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide.shtml (4) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2020). Suicide Mortality by State. Retrieved from: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/ sosmap/suicide-mortality/suicide.htm (5) Vargas, E. (2019, November 20). Center for American Progress. Gun Violence in America: A State-by-State Analysis. Retrieved from: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/guns-crime/news/2019/11/20/477218/gun-violence-america-state-state-analysis/ (6) Everytown (2020) Ten Years of Mass Shootings in the United States: An Everytown for gun safety support fund analysis. Retrieved from: https://maps.everytownresearch.org/massshootingsreports/mass-shootings-in-america-2009-2019/ (7) Gramlich, J. (2019, August 16). What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S. Factank. Retrieved from: https://www.pewresearch.org/ fact-tank/2019/08/16/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/ (8) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2020). QuickStats: Number of Deaths from Hornet, Wasp, and Bee Stings, Among Males and Females – National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2000-2017. Retrieved from: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/ mm6829a5.htm#:~:text=Among%20U.S.%20residents%20only.,the%20deaths%20were%20among%20males. (9) Everytown Research and Policy (2020) Guns and Violence Against Women. America’s Uniquely Lethal Intimate Partner Violence Problem. Retrieved from: https://everytownresearch.org/report/guns-and-violence-against-women-americas-uniquely-lethal-intimate-partner-violence-problem/ (10) Federal Bureau of Investigation (2016). Crime in the United States. Retrieved from: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.- 2016/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-3.xls (11) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2020). Underlying Cause of Death, 1999-2019. Retrieved from: https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/ datarequest/D76;jsessionid=A6D9B9CB15316CEB88DC576535DD (12) Statista (2020). Number of murder victims in the United States in 2019, by race/ethnicity and gender. Retrieved from: https://www.statista.com/ statistics/251877/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-race-ethnicity-and-gender/ (13) Statista (2020). Total violent crime reported in the United States from 1990 to 2019: Retrieved from: https://www.statista.com/statistics/191129/ reported-violent-crime-in-the-us-since-1990/ (14) Casteel, C(2000, May). Effectiveness of crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) in reducing robberies. National Library of Medicine, 18(4), 99-115. (15) Harms, W. (2018, May 25). Randomized trial estimates program’s benefits at 3 to 31 times its cost. UChicago News. Retrieved from: https://news.uchicago.edu/story/study-chicago-counseling-program-reduces-youth-violence-improves-school-engagement#:~:text=Such%20controlled %20studies%20remain%20rare,in%20social%20policy%20more%20broadly.&text=Youth%20who%20participated%20in%20the,crime%20arrests%20 during%20the%20intervention. (16) RAND (2018, March 2). The Relationship Between Mental Health Care Access and Suicide. Retrieved from: https://www.rand.org/research/gun- policy/analysis/essays/mental-health-access-and-suicide.html (17) Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. Retrieved from: https://giffords.org/lawcenter/resources/scorecard/#CA (18) D’Onofrio, J. (2021, January 1). 2020 Cook County deaths break records due to gun violence, opioid overdoses, COVID-19, ME says. ABC7 News. Retrieved from: https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shootings-2020-shooting-crime-stats-statistics/9250374/ (19) The Baltimore Sun: Baltimore Homicides. Retrieved from: https://homicides.news.baltimoresun.com/?cause=shooting&range=2020
13. Over 67,000 per year (2)
14. 486 deaths in 2017, or about 1.22%. (7)
15. Self-Defense
16. Unknown deaths, depending on source range of 60,000 to 2.5 million occurrences per year where gun is used in self defense.
17. Help the cause (people)
18. Control the person
19. Save lives?
20. Non-suicide firearm death rate in large metro areas over 20 years 4.51/100k. Non-suicide firearm death rate in non-metro over same time was 3.01/100k and 2.75/100k in small metro areas. (11) Blacks 25% more likely to be murdered with a firearm than whites. (12)
21. Excessive laws may cause otherwise law abiding citizens to be classified as a criminal.
22. 2nd Amendment
23. Study of youth in Chicago showed up to 44% decrease in violent crime the year after a program was studies. This is an under-studied are of crime prevention. (15)
24. Programs that look to treat the causes of violent crime and suicide are more likely to have a larger impact on gun violence as a whole, but will have little impact on high profile incidents.
25. Studies correlate lower suicide rates with increased mental health services. (16)
26. Owner responsibility laws could add insult to injury. Criminal charges after, for example a child committing suicide, are draconian at best. Civil liability already exists to incentivize responsible storage and use of firearms. Incidents in which these laws would be applicable would likely not make a significant impact on gun crime as a whole.
27. Unknown
28. Restrictive gun laws do little to reduce homicides in urban areas. Therefore, any solutions that focus on the gun, as opposed to the person, are less likely to have any impact other than altering our perception of the problem or by providing a placebo effect.
29. Gun Deaths
30. Suicides
31. Crime
32. Waiting Periods
33. Restrict Magazine Size
34. Domestic Violence
35. Gang / Drug Violence / Other Crime
36. 'Mass shootings'
37. Gun-free zones
38. Legal Intervention
39. Overall Suicide rate 14.0 / 100,000 (3). 23,854 with firearm in 2017, or 59.95% of gun deaths (7)
40. Varies widely by state. High of 25.2/100k in Wyoming to 8.3/100k in New Jersey and New York (4)
41. States with higher suicide rates, in general, have higher suicide rates by firearm. (5)
42. 553 in 2017, or 1.3%(7)
43. 16.4 per year (7)
44. Ban 'assault' weapons and/or components
45. In 2018 112 killed in mass shootings or about 0.28% of gun deaths (6) That's 0.033 deaths per 100,000. Per CDC, about as likely as dying by falling from a tree, and only twice as likely than to die by being stung by a bee or wasp. (8)
46. Handguns used in 64%, Rifles 4%, Shotguns 2%, not stated 30% (7)
47. Social Services / community outreach / youth programs
48. Approx 636 shot by intimate partner each year, or 1.6% of gun deaths (9)
49. Approx 35% of all gun deaths.
50. Control the symptom (gun)
51. Reduce fear?
52. CCW / Arm teachers / Harden targets
53. Control the environment
54. Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design. Studies show promise in reducing violent crime such as robbert, but further research needed to determine cause. No direct research as it relates to firearm assaults or deaths. (14)
55. Legislators may not have experience with, or knowledge of, firearms.
56. The failure of the war on drugs illustrates the inability of the government to effectively regulate the possession of contraband.
57. High profile incidents make up an incredibly small portion of gun crime. Efforts to reduce them may create the idea of a safer community but will have little to no impact on gun violence as a whole.
58. Although there is some correlation between restrictive gun laws and lower rates of gun death, there are significant anomalies. These include California which, while below the national average, has gun death rates much higher than other 'A' rated states despite having the strictest gun laws. The City of Los Angeles, for example, has a gun homicide rate on par with the national average. Illinois and Maryland are also rated as 'A' states yet Illinois has gun death rates just below the national rate and Maryland has death rates above the national rate (17). Chicago has a gun murder rate, not including suicide, of 17.13 per 100,000, which is 145% the national gun death rate. (18) Even more shocking is Baltimore's gun homicide rate of 36.02/100k in 2020, or 305% the national gun death rate. It should be noted neither of these rates includes suicides whereas the national average does. (19)
