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“By the end of an average day in America, 31 people will be murdered by gunfire. Another 55 people will die from self-inflicted gunshots.” 

That’s what we wrote when we launched The Trace on this day in 2015. What’s striking about that data point is how woefully out of date it is. Back then, 86 people died every day from gunshot wounds in the United States. Today it’s 128, according to the most recent figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

A decade before we launched, in 2005, it was 84. 

So in its first decade as a…