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Community Violence
There were 121 gunshot fatalities in the U.S. on Saturday and Sunday.
Data
In Mississippi and Louisiana, fatal shootings are three times as common as in the U.S. as a whole.
A new study aims to clear up the misconceptions that may prevent life-saving conversations.
Here's how some states are trying to fix that.
Chicago
Through March, officers had confiscated 1,100 firearms.
But the way the agency packaged the data obscures that trendline.
By the numbers, it was a typical three days for gun violence in the U.S.
“There is nothing stopping them from addressing this life-and-death national problem.”
That's more than one per school day.
The rate at which women are buying firearms has remained mostly unchanged for decades.
Researchers found FBI and CDC databases drastically undercounted the number of fatal police shootings.
Some skeptics attribute suicide trends to variables other than the availability of firearms. Fresh research from the Harvard School of Public Health and Northeastern University may put the debate to rest.
California, Florida, Alabama, and Missouri each experienced incidents of gun violence with four or more victims.
A murder-suicide rocks an Arizona high school, and illustrates what research has found about children’s access to deadly weapons.
Background Checks
And 100 percent of them are wrong.
