Gun Violence Stats
This nonprofit organization tracks gun violence incidents across the U.S., including Durham.
What is the Gun Archive?
Does North Carolina prohibit felons from owning guns?
Yes it does. In 2004, North Carolina prohibited felons from owning guns.
In Durham public schools, reports of this threat level trigger immediate lock down procedures.
What is an active shooter threat?
What is the main cause of death for youth in Durham?
What is Gun Violence?
This city in North Carolina has seen efforts to reduce gun violence through community programs and law enforcement initiatives.
What is Durham?
By how much (percentage) did the number of shooting victims in Durham increase in the year 2020?
There were 66% more shooting victims in Durham in 2020 than there were in the previous year.
Does North Carolina allow convicted stalkers to have guns?
Yes it does. Convicted stalkers can have guns in North Carolina.
True/false: Gun violence and school shootings are concentrated in certain areas (happens in one place more than another)
How does gun violence affect the youth in Durham?
A strategy focusing on identifying and helping those most at risk of being involved in gun violence.
What is Focused Deterrence?
What percentage of homicides in Durham involved a firearm?
What is over 85%?
What is the minimum age to own a gun in North Carolina?
There is no minimum age to own a gun in North Carolina
True/false: School shootings are most usually done by those influenced by gun violence at an early age
True
What are the main causes of gun violence in Durham?
1. What is Poverty?
2. What is Lack of education?
3. What is Systemic Inequality?
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Community based groups that work to prevent, usually through meditation and support services.
What are Violence Interrupters?
In 2023, how many people were non-fatally shot in Durham?
What is over 200?
Does North Carolina allow sellers to deny sales if the buyer poses a public danger?
No, gun sellers in North Carolina cannot deny sales if the buyer poses a public danger.
School administrators are required to notify this group immediately when a firearm is discovered on campus.
What is local law enforcement?
How can gun violence be lessened in Durham?
1. What are intervention programs?
2. What are mentorship programs?
Public health approach that views violence as a disease and seeks to prevent its spread through targeted interventions
What is the Cure Violence Model?
What age group makes up the highest percentage of gun violence victims in Durham?
What is ages 18–24?
A crime is considered a hate crime if it was done because of which traits of the victim: gender, race, religion, disability, nationality, country of origin, sexuality.
Protected: race, religion, nationality, country of origin
Not Protected: disability, sexuality, gender
This walking trail was the site of the fatal shooting of a Durham Public Schools student.
What is the American Tobacco Trail?
How has the government helped to reduce gun violence? What are some of the intervention/mentorship programs in Durham?
What is helping existing intervention/mentorship programs? What is Bull City United, Partners Against Crime, Project Safe Neighborhoods, or Durham Impact Project? (AWARD IF THEY MENTION ONE PROGRAM AND ANSWER FIRST QUESTION)
A program in Durham that provides resources and support to those affected by gun violence, trying to 'break the cycle' of gun violence.
What is the Durham Peacemakers Program?