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Wednesday, March 29th, 2023

When the Shooting Stops

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Source:     Everytown Research & Policy
Publication Date:     2.3.2022
 Link: When the Shooting Stops
Stephan:  

Here is more evidence about what I have come to see as the second effect of gun violence in the United States, one that is altering in a negative way the entire culture of American society. The gun violence issue is about guns. Today I have been listening to and reading Republican after Republican step in front of a microphone to say gun violence is not about guns it is about race, evil, transsexuality, education, yadda...yadda...yadda. It is all a Republican attempt to fog reality. Gun violence is about guns. Other countries have race issues, evil issues, education issues, transsexual issues, etc. But none of them have the kind of gun violence going on in the United States, where an average of 120 people a day die from being shot by guns. Why the difference? Because no other country has more guns than people, and easy access to military weapons designed to kill as many people as possible, as quickly as possible.

The trauma of gun violence doesn’t end when the shooting stops. Across the country, people from all walks of life have been impacted by this public health epidemic: in a national poll, 58 percent of adults reported that they or someone they care for have experienced gun violence in their lifetime.2 More people die from gun violence by early February in the United States than during an entire calendar year in other high-income countries.3 In addition, millions more in the United States are shot and wounded, threatened with a gun, or witness an act of gun violence in their lifetime.4 For this reason, Everytown for Gun Safety marks National Gun Violence Survivors Week annually in February.

Experiencing gun violence has lasting emotional, physical, legal, and financial impacts on survivors as well as their communities. The breadth and diversity of the survivor experience is directly related to the wide-ranging nature of America’s gun violence crisis. Gun violence can take many forms, including gun suicides and suicide […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Thursday, March 30, 2023 at 1:03 am

    The NRA must be spending a lot of money to Republicans to keep these terrible guns on our streets, especially Military style guns.