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Every time there is a mass shooting in the United States, a debate about reforming the nation's gun laws begins anew, as it has this week following the shooting at a high school in Florida that killed 17 people.

Gun-control advocates often cite stricter gun laws and lower incidence of gun violence in several other democracies, like Canada, Japan and Australia.

Here's a look at how some of the global approaches compare:
The United States
Gun ownership in the United States is rooted in the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." Gun advocates consider ownership a birthright and an essential part of America's heritage. Federal law provides the basis for firearm regulation in the United States, but states and cities can impose regional restrictions.
Canada
Like the United States, Canada has federal gun restrictions that can be supplemented by provinces, territories and municipalities. All gun owners are required to be older than 18 years of age, obtain a license that includes a background check and complete a public safety course. All guns fall under three categories: unrestricted, restricted and prohibited. Ordinary rifles and shotguns are unrestricted; handguns, semiautomatic rifles and shotguns, as well as sawed-off rifles and shotguns are restricted; and all automatic weapons are prohibited.
Australia
After 35 people were killed in a mass shooting in Tasmania in 1996, the federal government passed a law banning all automatic and semiautomatic firearms, as well as tightened licensing and ownership rules. They also started a buyback program that took more than 650,000, about one-sixth of the national stock, out of circulation. The law also required those with gun licenses to demonstrate a "genuine need" for a particular type of gun, which doesn't include self-defense, and to take a firearm safety course. Licensees also must meet storage requirements that include keeping ammunition stored separately and abide by a waiting period of 28 days.
United Kingdom
After a gunman killed 16 children and one teacher at a school in Dunblane, Scotland, in 1996, Great Britain passed its strictest gun laws yet. Handguns are not permitted among the general populace, but there are allowances for firearms and shotguns that can be obtained from the police. Self-defense is not seen as a reason to own firearms.
Finland
Handgun license applicants are allowed to purchase firearms only if they can prove they are active members of regulated shooting clubs. Before they can get a gun, applicants must pass an aptitude test, submit to a police interview and show they have a proper gun storage unit.
Japan
Under the firearm and sword law, the only guns permitted are shotguns, air guns, guns that have research or industrial purposes, or those used for competitions. Before being allowed to own specialty weapons, a licensee has to obtain formal instruction and pass a battery of written, mental and drug tests, as well as a rigorous background check. Owners must also inform the authorities of how the weapon and ammunition is stored and provide the firearm for annual inspection.
Singapore
The small Asian nation has perhaps the strictest gun laws in the world. Ordinary citizens are not allowed access to any firearms. If a person is caught with a gun, the punishment is "caning" (physical punishment, usually with a cane). If someone tries to use a weapon, the punishment is death. If someone is caught with more than one weapon, it is assumed they are trafficking arms and can be punished by death or life in prison.

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How Gun Control Laws Compare Around the Globe

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Every time there is a mass shooting in the United States, a debate about reforming the nation's gun laws begins anew, as it has this week following the shooting at a high school in Florida that killed 17 people. Gun-control advocates often cite stricter gun laws and lower incidence of gun violence in several other democracies, like Canada, Japan and Australia.

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Quotes:  "The law also required those with gun licenses to demonstrate a “genuine need” for a particular type of gun, which doesn’t include self-defense, and to take a firearm safety course."- Australia
"Handguns are not permitted among the general populace, but there are allowances for firearms and shotguns that can be obtained from the police. Self-defense is not seen as a reason to own firearms." - United Kingdom

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My Thoughts: The US and Canada have similar gun laws which make sense. Australia on the other hand has very strict laws with the ownership of hand guns, just over a mass shooting that happened back in 1996. It shows that Australia is way more strict than the US is with gun control. The Untied Kingdom did the same thing. After one gun man killed little children and a teacher their gun laws became strict very fast. As I read all the other rules from other countries it makes the US look very different.

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February 20, 2020

Every day, more than 100 Americans are killed with guns and 200 more are shot and wounded. The effects of gun violence extend far beyond these casualties-gun violence shapes the lives of millions of Americans who witness it, know someone who was shot, or live in fear of the next shooting.
In order to illustrate the magnitude of everyday gun violence, Everytown has gathered the most comprehensive, publicly available data. Still, significant data gaps remain-a result of underfunded, incomplete data collection at the state and federal level. Filling these gaps is necessary to truly understand the full impact of gun violence in the United States.

Average Deaths per YearCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) Fatal Injury Reports. A yearly average was developed using five years of most recent available data: 2014 to 2018. While it is broadly considered to be the most comprehensive firearm fatal injury source, two of the intent categories-Shootings by Law Enforcement and Unintentional Deaths-are estimated to be greatly underreported. This underreporting is largely due to missing information on death certificates, which may result in misclassification of intent. Multiple media sources and nonprofit groups have tracked shootings by law enforcement, but no reliable public database captures unintentional shootings. Intent category averages may not total to yearly average due to rounding.
Total 37,603

*Note: This intent category is believed to be underreported and is likely being misclassified as homicide.Loftin C, Wiersema B, McDowall D, Dobrin A. Underreporting of justifiable homicides committed by police officers in the United States, 1976-1998. American Journal of Public Health. 2003; 93(7): 1117-1121.See also: Barber C, Azrael D, Cohen A, Miller M, et al. Homicides by police: Comparing counts from the National Violent Death Reporting System, Vital Statistics, and Supplementary Homicide Reports. American Journal of Public Health. 2016; 106(5): 922-927. The Washington Post's database is widely cited and estimates that 988 civilians are fatally shot by police in an average year-nearly twice as many as recorded by the CDC.Fatal Force. The Washington Post. Data reflects a 5 year average (2015 to 2019) of deaths attributed to police shootings. https://wapo.st/policeshootings?tid=ss_tw.

Nearly two-thirds of gun deaths are suicides.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) Fatal Injury Reports. A yearly average was developed using five years of most recent available data: 2014 to 2018. The U.S. gun suicide rate is 10 times that of other high-income countries.Grinshteyn E, Hemenway D. Violent death rates in the US compared to those of the other high-income countries, 2015. Preventive Medicine. 2019; 123: 20-26.

Access to a gun triples the risk of death by suicide.Anglemyer A, Horvath T, Rutherford G. The accessibility of firearms and risk for suicide and homicide victimization among household members: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Opoliner A, Azrael D, Barber C, Fitzmaurice G, Miller M. Explaining geographic patterns of suicide in the U.S.: The role of firearms and antidepressants. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2014; 160(2): 101-110. Gun suicides are concentrated in states with high rates of gun ownership.Injury Epidemiology. 2014; 1(1): 6.

Most people who attempt suicide do not die-unless they use a gun. Across all suicide attempts not involving a firearm, 4 percent will result in death. But for gun suicides, those statistics are flipped: Approximately 90 percent of gun suicide attempts end in death.Conner A, Azrael D, and Miller M. Suicide case-fatality rates in the United States, 2007 to 2014: A nationwide population-based study. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2019; 885-95.

White men represent 74 percent of firearm suicide victims in America.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) Fatal Injury Reports. A yearly average was developed using five years of most recent available data: 2014 to 2018. White men defined as non-Hispanic white.

One-third of gun deaths are homicides.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) Fatal Injury Reports. A yearly average was developed using five years of most recent available data: 2014 to 2018. Homicide includes legal intervention. The U.S. gun homicide rate is 25 times that of other high-income countries.Grinshteyn E, Hemenway D. Violent death rates in the US compared to those of the other high-income countries, 2015. Preventive Medicine. 2019; 123: 20-26.

Access to a gun doubles the risk of death by homicide.Anglemyer A, Horvath T, Rutherford G. The accessibility of firearms and risk for suicide and homicide victimization among household members: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2014; 160(2): 101-110.

Gun homicides are concentrated in cities-half of all gun homicides took place in just 127 cities, which represented nearly a quarter of the U.S. population.Aufrichtig A, Beckett L, Diehm J, Lartey J. Want to fix gun violence in America? Go local. The Guardian. January 9, 2017. https://bit.ly/2i6kaKw. Within these cities, gun homicides are most prevalent in racially segregated neighborhoods with high rates of poverty.Ibid.

Black Americans represent the majority of gun homicide victims.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) Nonfatal Injury Reports. The CDC derives national estimates of nonfatal firearm injuries treated in hospitals from a survey of hospitals known as the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS). According to the CDC, some of these estimates may be unstable. The CDC's nonfatal injury data has come under scrutiny largely because of increasing error margins in recent years. Nonetheless, data provided by the CDC on nonfatal injuries is the most common data currently used in gun violence prevention research. To account for fluctuations between years, a yearly average was developed using five years of the most recent available data: 2014 to 2018. In fact, Black Americans are 10 times more likely than white Americans to die by gun homicide.Ibid.

Firearms are the leading cause of death for American children and teens.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) Fatal Injury Reports. Data from 2018. Children and teenagers aged 1 to 19, Black defined as non-Hispanic, number of deaths by known intent (homicide, suicide, unintentional deaths). Age 0 to 1 calculated separately by the CDC because leading causes of death for newborns and infants are specific to the age group.

More than 1,700 children and teens die by gun homicide every year.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) Fatal Injury Reports. A yearly average was developed using five years of most recent available data: 2014 to 2018. Analysis includes: ages 0 to 19, and homicide including legal intervention. For children under the age of 13, these gun homicides most frequently occur in the home and are often connected to domestic or family violence.Fowler KA, Dahlberg LL, Haileyesus T, Gutierrez C, Bacon S. Childhood firearm injuries in the United States. American Academy of Pediatrics. 2017; 140(1): e20163486.

Black children and teens are 14 times more likely than white children and teens of the same age to die by gun homicide.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) Fatal Injury Reports. A yearly average was developed using five years of most recent available data: 2014 to 2018. Analysis includes: ages 0 to 19, non-Hispanic only and homicide including legal intervention.

Women in the U.S. are 21 times more likely to be killed with a gun than women in other high-income countries.Grinshteyn E, Hemenway D. Violent death rates in the US compared to those of the other high-income countries, 2015. Preventive Medicine. 2019; 123: 20-26.

In an average month, 53 American women are shot to death by an intimate partner,Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program Data: Supplementary Homicide Reports, 1976-2018. Kaplan, Jacob concatenated files as posted on: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-27. https://doi. org/10.3886/E100699V8. Everytown includes data from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) in national IPV statistics; however Florida's state-specific IPV statistics are suppressed, as FDLE only captures incidents of spousal IPV, which results in undercounting. and many more are shot and wounded.

Nearly one million women alive today have been shot or shot at by an intimate partner.Sorenson SB, Schut RA. Nonfatal gun use in intimate partner violence: A systematic review of the literature. Ibid. See also: Tjaden P, Thoennes T. Trauma, Violence & Abuse. 2016; 1524838016668589. Approximately 4.5 million American women alive today have been threatened with a gun by an intimate partner.Full report of the prevalence, incidence, and consequences of violence against women: Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey. National Institute of Justice, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 2000.

Access to a gun in a domestic violence situation makes it five times more likely that a woman will be killed.Campbell JC, Webster D, Koziol-McLain J, et al. Risk factors for femicide in abusive relationships: Results from a multisite case control study. American Journal of Public Health. 2003; 93(7): 1089-1097.

58 percent of American adults or someone they care for have experienced gun violence in their lifetime.SurveyUSA Market Research Study. Data collected from December 7, 2018 to December 11, 2018. https://bit.ly/2ExxpyZ. See question 39.

Approximately three million American children witness gun violence every year.Finkelhor D, Turner HA, Shattuck A, Hamby SL. Prevalence of childhood exposure to violence, crime, and abuse: Results from the National Survey of Children's Exposure to Violence. The Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics. 2015; 169(8): 746-754. Everytown analysis derives the 3 million number by multiplying the share of children (ages 0-17) who are exposed to shootings per year (4.2%) by the total child population of the U.S. in 2016 (~73.5M).

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As the quote states above. A women is more likely to get killed. Why is that? The only thing I kept finding was, women are less likely to attempt a homosice than men

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Do gun-free zones prevent mass shootings, or encourage them? The truth is, no one has enough good evidence to say for sure.

America spends more research money studying hernias and peptic ulcers than it does studying gun violence. As a result, we don't know whether assault-weapon bans reduce homicides, or whether better background checks might prevent accidental shootings. We don't even know how many guns are circulating in the United States right now.

A two-year study of gun policy in America by researchers at RAND found the following:

The evidence for or against most major gun policy proposals is weak, inconclusive, contradictory, or entirely nonexistent. We don't even have a shared set of facts on basic questions. How many mass shootings were there in 2015? Depending on the definition, estimates range from 7 to 371.

The strongest evidence supports safe storage laws meant to keep firearms out of the hands of children. But even there, the lack of research makes it hard to anticipate any tradeoffs, such as hindering defensive gun use.

For all the fury of the debate, the pro- and anti-gun control sides appear to share many of the same objectives when it comes to gun policy. They differ over which policies will best achieve those objectives. That's a question of fact that better research could answer.

Gun Policy Has Been Understudied for Decades

"Gun policy is an area that has been systematically and intentionally understudied for the last two decades," said Andrew Morral, a senior behavioral scientist at RAND who led a team of nearly 20 researchers on the gun policy project.

"Getting better information seems like an obvious first step toward trying to create a shared set of understandings about which policies will achieve goals that both sides in the debate appear to share," he added. "No guarantees. But my hunch is that there are enough people who want to know the truth that collecting that kind of information would help grow a consensus around a shared set of facts."

The federal government spends only about 1.6 percent as much on gun violence research as it does on research into traffic crashes and other leading causes of death.

Among the leading causes of death in America, gunshots claim about as many lives as car crashes. More than 38,000 people die by guns every year, the majority of them suicides-an average of more than 100 gun deaths every day. Yet the federal government spends only about 1.6 percent as much on gun violence research as it does on research into traffic crashes and other leading causes of death. That's no accident.

In the mid-1990s, Congress zeroed out the budget for gun violence prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after some of its studies linked home gun ownership with higher rates of firearm deaths. Congress also prohibited the use of federal research funding to promote gun control. The CDC has since interpreted that rule, advocated by the National Rifle Association (NRA) and known as the Dickey Amendment, as an outright ban on most gun research.

That has left mostly private foundations and universities to search for evidence about what works and what doesn't to prevent gun violence. Without government support, they also work without much government data. Researchers wanting to follow trends in gun ownership rates, for example, have had to try to estimate those numbers from hunting permits, firearm suicide rates, even subscriptions to Guns & Ammo magazine.

RAND Gets Involved with Sweeping Study

RAND decided to get involved in late 2015. At the time, a shooting that left 14 people dead at a holiday office party in San Bernardino, Calif., was still in the headlines. The same pundits were making the same old arguments on cable news and the opinion pages. What was needed, RAND leaders decided, was a neutral review of the evidence on a range of gun policy proposals, from background checks and weapon bans to stand-your-ground and concealed-carry laws.

RAND sponsored the work itself, using funds it reserves for research ventures that are especially tough and often controversial.

"It was time to do something, if there were something we could do to make a difference," RAND President Michael D. Rich said. RAND sponsored the work itself, using funds it reserves for research ventures that are especially tough and often controversial.

Researchers reviewed thousands of books, journal articles, and research papers on gun policies and gun violence prevention. Almost none had the scientific rigor to show that a given policy actually changed a given outcome, such as the number of suicides or accidental injuries. The researchers found just 63 studies that met that standard, with few clear answers.

Do assault-weapon bans reduce mass shootings or violent crime? The evidence was too sparse and too uncertain to say for sure. Do waiting periods for gun purchases reduce suicides, homicides, or accidental deaths? Inconclusive, with too few studies and contradictory results. What do we know about gun-free zones, defensive gun use, or policy effects on the gun industry? Almost nothing.

What We Know

What are some of the effects of gun policies in the United States? And how strong is the evidence?

Supportive evidence

Moderate evidence

Limited evidence

Other areas studied revealed inconclusive or no evidence of the effects of gun policies on these outcomes: defensive gun use, hunting and recreation, mass shootings, and officer-involved shootings.
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The best evidence showed that child-access prevention laws could reduce accidental and self-inflicted gun deaths and injuries among youth. The researchers also found moderate evidence that gun restrictions for people with mental illness could reduce violent crime; and moderate evidence that stand-your-ground laws might increase homicide rates. They found moderate evidence as well that dealer background checks reduce suicides and gun homicides, but inconclusive evidence for expanded background checks by private sellers.

The researchers had planned to build an online calculator that would help policymakers sort through different combinations of gun policies and see their likely effects. But as they reviewed the evidence, they realized it wasn't nearly strong enough. Midway through the project, they scrapped the calculator and replaced it with a survey of more than 100 gun policy experts.

The experts fell into the same two camps as the gun debate in general. On one side, the "permissives" favored looser gun regulations and identified themselves most closely with the NRA. On the other, the "restrictives" wanted tougher gun regulations and identified with groups like the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. There was no middle ground.

But the survey found that the two sides mostly agreed on what the objectives of any gun policy should be. They both listed reducing homicides and suicides as the top priority, followed by preventing mass shootings, protecting privacy rights, protecting hunting and sport shooting, and protecting gun rights. It wasn't a clash of values; it was a disagreement over which policies would best achieve those objectives-a difference of facts.

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One fundamental difference was especially striking. The permissives thought that, without guns, most homicides and suicides would still happen, just by other means. In fact, their median estimate was that 90 percent of people who take their own lives with guns would still take their own lives without guns. The restrictives thought that eliminating guns would eliminate a major part of the problem. Their median estimate was that only 20 percent of gun suicides would still happen without guns.

"That's a huge difference, and you have to assume it really colors how the two sides evaluate gun policy," RAND's Morral said. "There's a right answer to that question; we could figure out how much substitution for firearms really happens. But there's so little research we can point to. We've been having these disagreements for decades, and yet we have not invested in trying to evaluate many gun policies."

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He sees some reason for optimism, even after spending two years immersed in the gun policy debate. Earlier this year, for example, Congress passed a budget that greatly expands funding for a nationwide database of violent deaths. That could help researchers better track and understand gun violence. Congress also backed changes to the national background check system, to improve the sharing of information across federal and state agencies.

And it attempted to clarify that the Dickey Amendment-the federal rule against using research dollars to promote gun control-doesn't require a ban on all gun research.

"There are a lot of things happening right now; there's a lot of interest in gun violence research," Morral said. "But before government agencies will invest meaningfully in gun violence research, Congress has to say that it wants gun violence research."

"Our nation does not have to choose between reducing gun-violence injuries and safeguarding gun ownership."

A 2015 op-ed in the Washington Post made the same point. It was written by Mark Rosenberg, who once oversaw gun violence research at the CDC, and Jay Dickey, the former Republican congressman from Arkansas who sponsored the 1996 amendment that stifled that research and that still bears his name.

"We can get there only through research," they wrote. "Our nation does not have to choose between reducing gun-violence injuries and safeguarding gun ownership. Indeed, scientific research helped reduce the motor vehicle death rate in the United States and save hundreds of thousands of lives-all without getting rid of cars."

- Doug Irving

RAND Selected to Help Oversee National Effort to Increase Funding for Research on Gun Violence

The RAND Corporation has been selected to help oversee a philanthropic fund that will support high-quality research on issues related to gun violence.

The National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research is a creation of the Houston-based Laura and John Arnold Foundation (LJAF), which has pledged $20 million to the effort and will seek an additional $30 million from other philanthropic groups.

Over the next five years, research sponsored by the collaborative will seek data-driven answers on the causes and patterns of gun-related violence in the United States. Based on scientific evidence, the work will help policymakers craft evidence-based policies to reduce gun violence. Read more "

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More Research Could Help Prevent Gun Violence in America

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Both sides of the gun policy debate agree on what the objectives of any policy should be. But they disagree over which policies would best achieve those goals. Current evidence for or against most gun proposals is weak, contradictory, or nonexistent. Only research can show what does-and doesn't-work.

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The places change, the numbers change, but the choice of weapon remains the same. In the United States, people who want to kill a lot of other people most often do it with guns.

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The number of U.S. mass shootings depends on how you count

Public mass shootings account for a tiny fraction of the country's gun deaths, but they are uniquely terrifying because they occur without warning in the most mundane places. Most of the victims are chosen not for what they have done but simply for where they happen to be.

There is no universally accepted definition of a public mass shooting, and this piece defines it narrowly. It looks at the public shootings in which four or more people were killed by a lone shooter (two shooters in a few cases). It does not include shootings tied to gang disputes or robberies that went awry, and it does not include domestic shootings that took place exclusively in private homes. A broader definition would yield much higher numbers.

Public mass shootings are a small slice of gun deaths

Source: Gun Violence Archive. Excludes the roughly 22,000 annual gun suicides, which are not publicly reported in real time.

This tally begins Aug. 1, 1966, when a student sniper fired down on passersby from the observation deck of a clock tower at the University of Texas. By the time police killed him, 17 other people were dead or dying. As Texas Monthly's Pamela Colloff wrote, the shooting "ushered in the notion that any group of people, anywhere - even walking around a university campus on a summer day - could be killed at random by a stranger."

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When I heard there was a mass shooting at Maryland's Capital Gazette Newsroom, I felt like I knew how the next couple days would play out: we'll find out the shooter was a white male, the NRA will say it's not the gun's fault, we will all send our thoughts and prayers, and there will be another shooting next month-or next week-or tomorrow. The names of the victims of mass shootings change, but the pattern stays the same.

Mass shootings have become everyday occurrences in the US. The shooting in Maryland marked the 154th mass shooting of 2018. We're now at 188. Today is the 205 th day of the year, which means we have had nearly as many mass shootings as days in the year. Feel free to re-read that sentence again. Yet, inevitably, with each mass shooting, we wade into political debates no one wins, and then we move on until the next high-profile tragedy.

We've long since reached the point where gun violence is a public health crisis. It is the leading cause of premature death in the US- killing more than 38,000 people and causing 85,000 injuries each year. What's more, this a problem unique to the US. Researchers analyzed 11 countries over 14 years and the United States has had more mass shootings than the other 10 nations combined. And while mass shootings tend to draw more attention, they still only account for a small fraction of the 38,000 gun deaths each year; more than half of all gun deaths are suicides.

Growing frustration around the lack of comprehensive and common sense gun control measures has led many groups to demand action. Last month, the American Medical Association came forth with unprecedented demands from doctor-members to take a stronger stance on gun violence. The #NeverAgain Movement and the March for Our Lives rallies that took place across the country in the wake of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting have galvanized activists.

And, as always, there is an important racial component to this conversation. Communities of color continue to be disproportionally affected by gun violence, yet their voices and leadership aren't fairly represented in the "mainstream" (i.e. white) movements. This is particularly true for black people, who make up 14 percent of the population, but account for more than half of the country's gun homicide victims. The March for Our Lives rally opened up space for voices of color to speak out-from Naomi Walder, an 11-year-old, who passionately stated, "I represent the African-American women who are victims of gun violence, who are simply statistics instead of vibrant beautiful girls full of potential," to Aalayah Eastmond, who spoke about how gun violence should not be overlooked in urban communities. But, these moments of creating space for voices of color are rare. More often than not, when communities of color speak out, they are instead criminalized for their moments of courage.

Every life lost is a senseless and avoidable tragedy, but it's clear from who we mourn, who we blame, and who we praise that we've placed different values on different people's lives. The most basic threshold of health equity would be that no one is more likely to be shot and killed because of their skin color than someone else, and we're a long way from achieving even that. For the health of our neighbors and communities, this is an issue the health care system has a responsibility to take action on, and we should all be following the lead of those most affected.

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Patterns of Gun Violence | Center for Health Progress

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Author: Filed Under: centerforhealth Health Equity, Leadership, Policy & Advocacy When I heard there was a mass shooting at Maryland's Capital Gazette Newsroom, I felt like I knew how the next couple days would play out: we'll find out the shooter was a white male, the NRA will say it's not the gun's fault, we will all send our thoughts and prayers, and there will be another shooting next month-or next week-or tomorrow.

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Dwyane Wade Interview on Gun Violence in Chicago

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My Thoughts: If people are seeing patterns of gun violence then why don't we fix it. This article was a opinion piece.

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Pattern of Gun Violence Quotes: "Shootings have killed 38,000 people and injured 85,000 each year"

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Gun control is not the only issue that divides America today. However, it is an issue that demands our attention because of the horrible consequences of gun proliferation. Tragedies, like school shootings, and the righteous anger that they generate, have brought gun violence to the forefront of national dialogue. Unfortunately, the youngest victims of mass gun violence in Newtown, Connecticut did not sufficiently move us to enact sensible gun laws. Sandy Hook Elementary lost 26 people that devastating day in December 2012-twenty first-graders and six staff members. We owe it to them to tackle this issue now, once and for all.

Today, the survivors of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have found their voices and wielded their outrage with skill that has transformed the gun debate landscape. Their voices and actions have garnered national attention and have led to boycotts, rallying, and lobbying elected officials. They have also organized a nationwide protest on March 24 dubbed "March for our Lives." These courageous acts in the face of unimaginable loss remind us that our young people are our future leaders. Their perspective is invaluable in shaping the direction of our country. We stand with them!

Young voices, like Emma Gonzales, are not willing to be silenced by platitudes and will not allow misdirection to deter them from tackling the problem of gun violence head-on. The truth is, responsible gun owners are not opposed to sensible gun laws. Others have been misled into supporting politicians who talk about the Second Amendment, fearing that sensible gun laws will have a negative impact on them. Americans want to own guns and they will. The only question is: will there be some process for ensuring that dangerous people (aka "bad guys with guns") don't have unlimited access? Polarization on this incredibly sensitive topic has the potential to destabilize our democracy. If we can unite behind this one issue, despite partisanship, perhaps we can find sensible solutions to the problem that threatens our mutual well-being and-even-survival.

Every American should hold their elected officials accountable. This is especially vital on the issue of gun violence, which should not be a partisan issue. Politicians who accept money from the NRA in return for opposing sensible gun laws are doing a disservice to their constituents. We should utilize the power of our votes to replace them with honest politicians who can't be bought. This is an issue that needs a sensible solution so that America can unite behind laws and politicians that serve the common good. The young people who volunteered for Freedom Summer in the 1960s taught our country the importance of coming together to make a change. Perhaps the young people in Florida, who are now speaking out, and who will forever be marked by the tragedy they survived, will be the catalyst that finally unites us.

About the Author

Sylvia Golbin-Goodman is the Executive Director of The Andrew Goodman Foundation and a member of its Board of Trustees. She leads the Foundation's programming and developed the Hidden Heroes Awards.

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We Need Sensible Gun Legislation Now - Andrew Goodman Foundation

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Gun control is not the only issue that divides America today. However, it is an issue that demands our attention because of the horrible consequences of gun proliferation. Tragedies, like school shootings, and the righteous anger that they generate, have brought gun violence to the forefront of national dialogue.

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My thoughts:
How people reacted to this was not good. The president turned it into politics. I think it was good for Dwayne to say he wanted more people to be aware of what is going on. Trump used his tweet as a poly for political gang. He still refers to it as a national story. He stated he wanted more eyes on the cities and it all trails back to the safety and how protected the city is. It made their city look like a political gang by the way our president reacted to the shooting.

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teachers being able to have a gun

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1.  Men are more likely to commit gun violence.

2. Is one gender more likely commit homicide or suicide than another?

3.  Are homicides committed more often against women than men?

4. Look into stats on accidental shootings.

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My Thoughts:  The government spends more time researching hernias and peptic ulcers is responsible but mass shootings are the leading causes of deaths so that should be a priority, therefore there isn't enough research on gun violence to stop it. There are ways people have tried prevented the guns but still there are points that people miss.

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My Thoughts: When ever a mass shooting happens they tend to focus on addressing a specific venue. In this article they spoke to kids of all ages from Florida. They said that they all have renewed hope to prevent gun violence all over.

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Quotes: "It's not only the high-profile mass shootings that we must work to prevent, but also the daily death-by-guns that claims more than 30,000 lives every year."

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My Thoughts: It Is stated in this article that our country has the highest rate of gun violence as of March 2016.  Some of the things that could prevent gun violence I agreed with & some I didn't.

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Quotes:  "A March 2016 study in the American Journal of Medicine found that Americans are 25 times more likely to die from gun homicide than people in other wealthy countries."

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My Thoughts: I liked this article because it really put things into perspective.

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Quotes: "It looks at the 161 shootings in which four or more people were killed by a lone shooter"