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Data
Shunning the FBI’s widely used definition, the numbers circulated by the crowdsourced Mass Shooting Tracker show such attacks to be an almost daily phenomenon.
A forthcoming Harvard survey suggest that more Americans own a sizable stockpile of firearms than there are residents of Denmark.
Nearly 60 people were shot in the city last weekend, making this September markedly different from Septembers past.
Just last week, the agency broke its record for firearms confiscated in a seven day period.
Community Violence
Spot treatments don't work if the larger problem is left unchecked.
America accounted for 62 percent of the world's mass public shootings at schools and workplaces between 1966–2012.
An analysis of federal data reveals a pattern of intimidation-by-firearm.
The research corroborates earlier reports — and offers new perspective on other, less-discussed categories of multiple-victim gun homicides.
Advocates claim the state's high rate of gun violence is a product of its lax gun laws and poor regulation of the firearms industry.
Data paints a complete picture of a bloody holiday weekend.
Mapping the youngest victims of gun violence.
Analysis shows that guns are the element that deadly attacks have in common.
