The Sandy Hook Massacre Was 6 Years Ago Today. This Year Had More School Shootings Than Ever.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released new data regarding gun deaths in the United States. It's not good. According to the CDC's WONDER database , 39,773 people died from gun violence in the United States in 2017. Adjusted for age, that comes out to 12.2 out of every 100,000 people. This is up from 10.3 out of every 100,000 people in 1999, the earliest year for which data was made available. According to the the CDC's Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS), the 12.2 number is the highest since 1996. "In 2017, nearly 109 people died every single day from gun violence," Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence Director of Public Health Research Adelyn Allchin said in a statement . "Gun violence is a public health epidemic that requires a public health solution, which is why we must immediately enact and implement evidence-based interventions – like permit-to-purchase policies and extreme risk laws." Allchin added that "it is way past time that elected leaders at every level of government work together to make gun violence rare and abnormal." The record number of gun-related deaths is largely the result of a spike in suicides. Of the nearly 40,000 people in the… Read full this story

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