According to the Gun Violence Archive, as of May 31 over 17,000 people in the U.S. had died in 2023 as a result of guns, including by suicide. The number includes 109 children under the age of 12.

US. Crime + Justice ... when schools were closed, there was a major decline in gun violence incidents on school grounds. ... 2022, 2023 and 2024 all setting records since at least 2008.

That struck me in the context of what your new poll has found: The majority of people in the U.S. say they are worried at least sometimes about gun violence. And about 10 percent say they worry daily.

The U.S. Supreme Court, which last year expanded gun rights in a landmark ruling, is set to return to the issue in a major case testing whether a law that keeps firearms away from people under ...

Gun safety and domestic violence prevention organizations gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court before oral arguments are heard in United States v.Rahimi on Nov. 7, 2023, in Washington.

The number of gun violence incidents on school grounds in 2024 so far has outpaced the total number of incidents in all of 2023, data from gun safety group Everytown shows.. As of September 30 ...

According to the Gun Violence Archive, which tracks such incidents, there have been more than 31,000 gun violence deaths so far this year. “We cannot normalize any of this,” she said. “These ...

Several high-profile mass shootings and a sustained rise in gun violence across the United States in 2022 have spurred law enforcement officials and lawmakers to push for more gun control measures ...

Shawn Kemp fired a gun in a Tacoma mall parking lot in 2023. Darkskin D/X. The 4Runner and another vehicle were damaged but no one was injured. The two men in the 4Runner, aged 39 and 35, have ...

Tieshawn Labar Matthews, 47, is expected to be sentenced on April 21, 2025 after a jury found him guilty for the 2023 murder of 17-year-old Corleon Antonio Gordon, KDPS said.

Racial and ethnic differences in gun deaths among kids are stark. In 2021, 46% of all gun deaths among children and teens involved Black victims, even though only 14% of the U.S. under-18 population ...

Gun violence in America is increasing, not only on crowded city streets, but in small towns in remote parts of the country that lack resources to save people from life-threatening gunshot wounds ...