Fun With Facts
-There were 231,991 deaths in 2016. 16.6% were gun related.
-There were 38,658 gun deaths in 2016.
-22,938
gun deaths were suicides (59%).
-14,415 gun deaths were homicides
(37%).
-Of the gun homicides:
-12,213
of the victims were male (85%)
- 8,434 of the victims
were black (58.5%)
- 5,560 of the victims
were white (38.6%)
-1,325 of the
victims were under 18 years of age (9%)
- There were 4,947 non-firearm homicides in 2016.
- There were 22,027 non-firearm suicides in 2016.
-There were 161,374 unintentional deaths in 2016. That’s 69.5%
of all deaths
-54,793
were from drug poisoning (34%)
-40,327
were from motor vehicles (25%)
-34,673
were from falls (21.5%)
-495
were from firearms (0.3%)
-Of the 987 people shot and killed by police in 2017:
-223 were black (22.6%)
-940 were male (95%)
-162 were in California. The most
of any state.
https://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/dataRestriction_inj.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/police-shootings-2018/?utm_term=.d5085db51ce6
(There's a link to 2017 on this page but I ran out of free access before I got the 2017 link)
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