Gun Deaths
The majority of gun deaths are caused with this intention.
What is suicide?
This type of law requires individuals to apply for and obtain a license before purchasing a firearm.
What is a Firearm Purchaser Licensing Law?
Individuals from this gender demographic carried out the most amount of K-12 school shootings from 1999 to 2024.
What is the male gender demographic?
This state has the most registered firearms in the US as of 2024
What is the state of Texas?
This type of firearm was the most common type of firearm used to carry out K-12 school shootings from 1999 to 2024.
What is a handgun/pistol?
This cause of gun death in the United States has been on the decline in recent years.
What is murder by firearm?
79% of Americans including 90% of Democrats and 69% of Republicans support a gun regulation to raise this to 21.
What is the minimum age to buy a gun?
This state has had the most K-12 school shootings from 1999-2024.
What is the state of California?
The most stated reason for gun ownership according to a Pew Research Center 2024 survey.
What is personal protection/self-defense?
What is the state of Wyoming?
This state has the highest total gun death rate.
What is the state of Mississippi?
This type of law requires gun owners to lock up their firearms when they are not in use.
What is a Safe Storage Law?
This level of schooling had the most school shootings in America since 1999.
What is high school?
Most weapons in mass shootings in the United States since 1982 were obtained this way.
What is legally purchasing a firearm?
This type of gun regulation is associated with a 12% reduction in intimate partner homicide.
What is a Domestic Violence Protection Order (DVPO)?
This state has the lowest total gun death rate in 2026 so far.
What is the state of Hawaii?
This type of order is meant to reduce domestic abusers’ access to firearms for a temporaray amount of time.
What is a Domestic Violence Protective Order (DVPO)?
The most common type of K-12 school shooting since 1999, where the shooter directs violence at specific individuals and staff in the school.
What is a targeted school shooting?
Most mass shootings in the United States from 1982 to 2026 utilized this type of purchased firearm.
What is a handgun/pistol?
Connecticut's 1995 version of this type of gun regulation law was associated with a 28% in the state's firearm homicide rate and a 33% reduction in the state's firearm suicide rate from 1996 to 2017.
What is a Firearm Purchaser Licensing Law?
Since 1990 the number of firearm deaths peaked in this year with 48,204.
What is the number of firearm deaths in 2021?
This type of regulation allows a court to remove a person's access to firearms if they are at elevated risk of harming themselves or others.
What is an Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) or "red flag law"?
This school year had the highest amount of K-12 school shootings since 1999.
What is the 2021-2022 school year?
This state has the highest amount of registered firearms per capita as of 2024.
What is the state of Wyoming?
A 2022 study concluded that this type of gun regulation could be used to address the threats of mass shootings as 10% of the cases where it was invoked involved the threat of killing at least 3 people.
What is an Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO)?