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A school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, involving young children has reignited the national US debate about access to firearms. What does the data tell us about gun culture and its impact?
Firearms deaths are a fixture in American life.
There were 1.5 million of them between 1968 and 2017 - that's higher than the number of soldiers killed in every US conflict since the American War for Independence in 1775.
In 2020 alone, more than 45,000 Americans died at the end of a barrel of a gun, whether by homicide or suicide, more than any other year on record. The figure represents a 25% increase from five years prior, and a 43% increase from 2010.
But the issue is a highly political one, pitting gun control advocates against sectors of the population fiercely protective of their constitutionally-enshrined right to bear arms.
Firearms deaths are a fixture in American life.
There were 1.5 million of them between 1968 and 2017 - that's higher than the number of soldiers killed in every US conflict since the American War for Independence in 1775.
In 2020 alone, more than 45,000 Americans died at the end of a barrel of a gun, whether by homicide or suicide, more than any other year on record. The figure represents a 25% increase from five years prior, and a 43% increase from 2010.
But the issue is a highly political one, pitting gun control advocates against sectors of the population fiercely protective of their constitutionally-enshrined right to bear arms.
America's gun culture - in seven charts
Posted from bbc.com
Firearms and Guns
Culture
Children
Murder
Violence
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I am a gun owner PO1 William "Chip" Nagel and as a retired military police officer I carry every day. As you are well aware, its a scary world today. I think the country should be focusing more on what makes some deranged madman go into a school and shoot innocent children or into a workplace and do the same. These mass killings have been a recent phenomena lets say in the last 50 years. What has changed in these 50 years, single family homes, drug and alcohol addictions, lack of religion in many families, unaddressed mental health issues and so much more. We need to get back to basics.
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