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4 years

A tidy review of my new book from @Reason . Many thanks to @jacobsullum for giving the book a gander and summarizing it so well.

Guns and Control

San Francisco writer Guy Smith finds little evidence that the availability of firearms explains differences in suicide and homicide rates.

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Gun Facts

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1 year

1/2 of states now permitless carry. I have a hunch that FL, SC, NV will flip in short order.

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10 months

The earliest Supreme Court mention of the Second Amendment had two justices who were alive when the amendment was ratified, and thus had an unvarnished view of what it meant. In that case they said the right was an individual right and that is guaranteed the right “… to keep

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10 months

Always important to remember that the idea that the 2nd Amendment has anything to do with a personal right to a firearm is just hocum that rightwing activists made up in the last three or four decades.

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@BrandtRobinson Your understanding or 2A origins is woefully lacking. 1) See our page for a condensed summary: 2) Buy a copy of "Origins of the Second Amendment". This is not a policy or analysis book, but a collection of everything said and written about ...

Gun Facts | Second Amendment, Origins and Court Rulings

Details about the legislative and judicial basis for the Second Amendment from a historical perspective. Includes data on originating state constitutions, debate and editing in congress, and pertin...

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@gunfacts

1 year

"When a father executes his 3 kids ... AR-15 ..." We can now safely label @K12ssdb as a propaganda organization with no fidelity to honesty.

K-12 School Shooting Database

@K12ssdb

1 year

When a father executes his 3 kids or a teenager starts shooting inside his classroom, an AR-15 is being used for exactly what it was designed for…killing as many people as possible.

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2 years

@RBReich Given that "assault weapons" are used in only 19% of mass public shootings, Robert's summary is mathematically impossible.

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@gunfacts

1 year

The CDC has the laundry list of what kills children, and firearms are below even heart disease.

David Hogg 🟧

@davidhogg111

1 year

The danger to your kids isn’t the rainbow crop top at target. It’s the semi automatic rifle with a high capacity magazine legally sold in the parking lot with no background check.

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1 year

Data indicates that states switching from shall-issue permitting to permitless have steady or declining homicide rates.

Gavin Newsom

@GavinNewsom

1 year

DeSantis signed a permit-less carry bill in April that removes requirements for: -background checks -instruction -training+oversight Until our leaders have the courage to stop bowing down to the NRA and enact common sense gun safety this kind of senseless violence will continue.

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Should the age to buy a rifle be raised to 21 to prevent mass public shootings? The answer is it won't make much difference. In the 21st century (rounding errors due to small numbers): * There were nine instances of mass public shooting by perps age 18-20, so a small base to

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@gunfacts

1 year

I've studied gun violence academically for 25 years. Everything you said is either incorrect or overlooks well understood factors (i.e. suicides are 60%+ of gun deaths). @RBReich , unless you are willing to be educated, you damage your personal brand with such uninformed tweets.

Robert Reich

@RBReich

1 year

Guns killed more than 44,000 people in the U.S. last year. Gun violence is the leading cause of death for American children. We know that gun laws work. So why can’t we act? Please share your thoughts below.

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@davidhogg111 The "decline" is from a pandemic spike. The law you cite has nothing to do with it.

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@gunfacts

3 months

Looks like a lawsuit is brewing over the early morning, no-knock operation: Family's lawyer: “It would be difficult to convince me that there was any basis to come at 6 a.m., 45 minutes before first light, over an hour before sunrise, to a private home under these facts and

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@gunfacts

1 year

Mass has the 4th lowest suicide rate in the country, which by proxy lowers the gun suicide rate and thus the "gun death" rate. Their gun homicide rate is about equal to Iowa and Utah. Thus, gun laws are not the determinant variable.

David Hogg 🟧

@davidhogg111

1 year

If every state had the same gun laws and death rate as Massachusetts we could cut gun deaths by 70% these laws work and it’s time we federalize them.

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1 year

Firearm homicides are the wrong metric. Murder can be done by many means. Since firearms can and are used to prevent crimes including murders, the correct metric is total homicides (by any means), optionally divided by per capita gun ownership rates. USA is on the far left.

Newtown Action Alliance

@NewtownAction

1 year

The United States has 11x more murders with firearms per million people than Ireland. In order to keep the flame of freedom alive, the United States must pass an #AssaultWeaponsBan . #BanAssaultWeapons

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@gunfacts

9 months

Odd that Biden's new Office of Gun Violence Prevention does not have a single criminologist on the team.

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@gunfacts

7 months

"...gun owners are more likely to misuse alcohol." We scanned the study, and did not find this claim. Curious that the JH propaganda team chose to misreport the study's findings. What the study did note (unsurprisingly) is that people with drinking problems do stupid things,

Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions

@JHU_CGVS

7 months

Alcohol misuse is associated with an increased risk of gun violence. In fact, gun owners are more likely to misuse alcohol than those who don’t own guns—over 15 million gun owners are estimated to binge drink or drink heavily in any given month:

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1 year

@davidhogg111 Just a point of clarification: "If the shooter at my high school had a smaller magazine it’s more likely a by stander could have stopped him as he was reloading." In your bullet list you said people should reload for certain self-defense scenarios, but at the end you admitted

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@gunfacts

4 months

South Carolina flipped to permitless carry. We have updated our map on our carry page: The the map there if you need a larger, sharable version. We are still classifying the nine red states as "may issue", though after Bruen that is a misnomer. We want

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7 months

Incorrectly stated. There are over 21,000,000 people who have carry permits and another 90,000,000 adults who live in permitless states. No doubt they encounter disputes, but they don't use their guns to resolve the dispute. What is true is that subcultures that endorse

K-12 School Shooting Database

@K12ssdb

7 months

Carrying guns in public turns simple disputes into shootings. Dozens of shootings this weekend at shopping malls, big box stores, super markets, downtown plazas, strip malls, bars, and other areas people congregate. Real world impact of lax gun regulation.

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Gun Facts

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9 months

@K12ssdb "... the most likely situations for an armed teacher..." Show us your data.

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@gunfacts

1 year

The reason behind this is that any hobbyist who buys and sells a certain number of guns in a year is required to get a license. There aren't that many hamburger enthusiast to create the same situation for McDonalds.

Angela Ferrell-Zabala (she/her)

@FerrellZabala

1 year

NEW from @Everytown : Last year there were more licensed gun dealers in the US than all McDonald’s, Burger Kings, Subways, and Wendy's in the US *combined*. But we haven't revisited how to oversee these dealers since the 60's. More oversight = fewer illegal guns = safer

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Gun Facts

@gunfacts

1 year

We'll be posting the percent of homicides and percent of population by state on a Gun Facts website page later today. For now, a simple map highlighting which county in each state has the highest percentage of homicides. Across all states, the most murderous counties had 40% of

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Gun Facts

@gunfacts

1 year

1) Suicides are the bulk. 2) Data shows that gun availability is not a determinate variable in suicide rates. Might want to tighten-up your agitprop, because this is so well known that even the average vote sees through your meme.

Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions

@JHU_CGVS

1 year

Guns, once again, were the leading cause of death among children and teens in 2021 accounting for more deaths than COVID-19, car crashes, or cancers. Our new report highlights the latest data on gun deaths in the US:

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Gun Facts

@gunfacts

2 years

@Everytown "Gun homicides" are the wrong metric since guns are also used to prevent murders. In this chart, the USA is on the far left. Regression testing shows no correlation between private gun ownership and homicides, even if ...

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@gunfacts

7 months

Sorry, no. Per the most recent update to the Gun Facts Mass Public Shooting database: * 64% of perps had arrest records or "contact" with police. * 52% had a history of violence.

DirkDiggler2025

@CameronSmi51230

7 months

@gunfacts And almost all mass shooters are “law abiding citizens “ until they commit the shootings

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1 year

This will open some eyes.

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@gunfacts

11 months

When we look at the gap between Cook County's share of the state’s firearm murders and population, we see the disturbing reality. Most counties adjoining Cook have negative gaps (meaning their firearm homicide rate is lower than their population would predict) while Cook is

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@gunfacts

6 months

Depends on which (often incorrect) definition of "mass shooting" one uses.

Newtown Action Alliance

@NewtownAction

6 months

According to @GunDeaths , there were three mass shootings on Christmas Eve. Three people are dead, 11 are injured. #EndGunViolence

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5 months

Age 15, in the country for five months, has acquired gold chains and a handgun, in a city and state with significant gun control.

'Armed and dangerous' teen migrant from Venezuela cries after arrest...

A 15-year-old migrant suspected of shooting a tourist and firing at a police officer in a Times Square robbery-gone-wrong was arrested on Friday, law enforcement sources said.

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10 months

On yesterday's news about AR-15s rarely being used in self-defense: We saw that claim, dug into it a bit, discovered its methodology frailties. 1] It uses a "group sourced" database focused on gun crimes, not self-defense. Hence, there is likely significant omission of in

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11 months

Headline says "children", story admits that the roster goes up to age 20.

Gun deaths among children and teens in the U.S. reached a new record in 2021, study finds

U.S. children and teens are more likely to die because of guns than car crashes, drug overdoses and cancer.

www.nbcnews.com

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3 months

"No charges had been filed against Malinowski. The unsealed documents relate to a search warrant looking for evidence." "ATF agents were serving the search warrant..." "The ATF conducted what [the family] characterized as a dawn raid on a private home." Let's summarize this a

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11 months

A data oddity discovered while working on our next analysis project. Of the 12 counties (0.8% of those reporting) that have 24.6% of homicides, two were in California and two in Missouri. Cali gets an "A" grade from Giffords while Missouri gets an "F". Cali's two counties have

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@gunfacts

1 year

Though a bit fuzzy, police bodycam footage shows the rifle in question to likely be a small caliber hunting/plinking rifle. Would not be an "assault weapon" under 1994 federal criteria.

Newtown Action Alliance

@NewtownAction

1 year

These are the three boys that were shot and killed by their father who was armed with a rifle. The brothers were all ages 7, 4 and 3. Call your Members of Congress 202-224-3121 and urge them to cosponsor the bill to #BanAssaultWeapons . #EndGunViolence #AssaultWeaponsBan

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1 year

Most child gun death rates are so low that the CDC codifies their estimates as "unreliable". This chart helps explain why children and teens should _not_ be amalgamated into a single study group. Teenagers have increacingly dangerrous behaviors, including joining street gangs.

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11 months

For anyone else who studies propaganda tactics, this little blub from The Trace is a fine example of The Lie of Definition and The Lie of Omission.

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1 year

Anyone know off the top of their heads the _typical_ plea-out terms for lying on gun purchases? "Will enter into a probation agreement on a charge of illegally owning a gun while being a drug user." The max is 10 years in jail and a fine of $250,000.

Hunter Biden charged with gun felony and tax misdemeanors

The 53-year-old is the son of President Biden.

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2 years

@GavinNewsom @GOP @NRA @thereidout "Gun deaths" includes suicides. Gun availability is not correlated with suicides rates. Hence, the Everytown map is pointless.

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@gunfacts

9 months

"... the most likely situations for an armed teacher..." Show us your data.

K-12 School Shooting Database

@K12ssdb

9 months

Just like regular people with guns, the most likely situations for an armed teacher are: 1. Accidentally firing 2. Leaving the gun in the bathroom 3. Shooting a student, coworker, or parent during a dispute 4. Committing suicide with it 5. Shooting bystander(s) during an attack

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I have noticed from time to time some folks in Germany (Hallo!) arguing about guns and one set of folks using Gun Facts data (danke). Evidentially, one person in those debates didn't like factual insight and solid data, and tried to use Germany's Network Enforcement Act to

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4 months

@JoelKaskinen a] Guns are not the leading cause of deaths for children. b] A question on the table is if permit holders would create a measurable risk to K12 students. Given the exceptionally low rate of crimes committed by permit holders (use as a proxy to endangering behaviors) and the

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1 year

The Mayor of Philly is doing what most politicians do when they themselves are likely to blame for a problem. To wit, he said a gun dealer "should be sued until they're out of business." But have a look at homicides in the state (using 2016 data since @nackjaydee is behind

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1 year

Where many people think this breaks down is the lack of nexus. On the low end, there are over 13,000,000 AR-15s in circulation. There was one Parkland perp. The other 12,999,999 AR-15 owners don't want to be penalized for a single, certified mentally ill perp.

David Hogg 🟧

@davidhogg111

1 year

I know many think that this was extreme. I'm fine with that. Personally I think the idea that protecting someones ability to buy an AR-15 is more important than my classmates lives is extreme. Doesn't mean I'm not willing to work on what we can agree on.

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A bit gory for a Sunday morning, but of interest. Small study of woundings in mass public shootings (MPS) found that "... events with a handgun are more lethal than those associated with use of a rifle." This seems counterintuitive, but this table shows that headshots are more

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7 months

@Sheeps62 @MomsDemand "... possession of a firearm by a prohibited person." The buried lede.

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5 months

No doubt that pro-gun factions will appeal this, but the following bit of the ruling is patently absurd: "Until Heller, the Supreme Court had never ruled that the Second Amendment afforded an individual right to keep and bear arms." Somehow they missed: * Cruikshank, 1876 *

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10 months

@joshtpm The earliest Supreme Court mention of the Second Amendment had two justices who were alive when the amendment was ratified, and thus had an unvarnished view of what it meant. In that case they said the right was an individual right and that is guaranteed the right “… to keep

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7 months

The problem is that "universal" isn't, and that the Bureau of Justice Statistics repeatedly tells us that most crime guns come from underground sources. Since we estimate 85% of gun homicides to be street gang related or nexus, and since nearly all of those guns come from

Kris Brown | President, bradyunited.org

@KrisB_Brown

7 months

The majority of Americans want universal background checks. On the 30th birthday of the Brady Bill, let's expand background checks!

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8 months

The problem in Maine was not the structure of the law. It was that the government, who was actively involve with the perp, failed. Note that: 1] The military requested he be taken for a psych hold 2] The police took him (which might comport to Maine's yellow-flag definition of

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@gunfacts

1 year

Factually inaccurate.

Chris Murphy 🟧

@ChrisMurphyCT

1 year

There’s a lot of craven disingenuous bs from the right on guns, but this is next level. Mass shooters are almost always killed on site because their intent is to not survive. They WANT a quick death penalty. Pence’s proposal would do nothing and he knows it.

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10 months

@arthurwatkins @WalshFreedom Incorrect. Ambien is not on the illicit narcotics list. Substitute Ambien for weed, and then you have a "crime".

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2 years

The Trace got a data dump (that they don't appear to be publicly sharing) from the Mexican government on recovered guns. There is so much wrong with their analysis, but here is a short set of observations: ...

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11 months

Oh, my. After getting back from a social engagement, I decided to take the chart from earlier today and substitute firearm homicides for overall violent crime. Wow. What is instructional are the before/after covariance differences. Before, the covariance (R-squared) between

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1 year

I'd like them to define "basic gun safety laws". Meanwhile, let's note (again) that their rankings for gun laws does _not_ correlate with lower homicide rates ... not even lower gun homicide rates. See

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1 year

I have been a member of a UCLA forum of constitutional scholars and autodidacts about 2A since 2004 (pre-Heller). His meme is wrong. 2A was intended, from the start, as an individual right. Two Supreme Court justices, alive when 2A was ratified, said so.

David Hogg 🟧

@davidhogg111

1 year

Talked with a Professor at Harvard Law yesterday about this. Can confirm.

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4 months

Had a long chat with a homicide detective who had worked in major metro areas. The interesting bits: 1) His hipshot estimate of the number of gun homicides that are street gang related or nexus agrees with our data triangulation (about 85%). 2) He also thinks the number of

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Gun Facts

@gunfacts

1 year

In states that switched from shall-issue to permitless carry, homicide rates stayed steady or declined.

GIFFORDS

@GIFFORDS_org

1 year

Despite knowing that Floridians didn't want permitless carry, Gov. DeSantis signed it into law. Permitless carry strips important measures, like a background check and safety training—meaning anyone could carry a loaded gun in public. Florida will now be a more dangerous state.

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Most owners of "assault-style weapons" in Illinois failed to register their firearms by a January 1st deadline. This is actually an international norm. The Small Arm Survey estimates the noncompliance rate for each country, and it is high everywhere (France significantly so).

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ATF crime gun traces indicate that national law is largely irrelevant (regardless of what @GavinNewsom says). Let's dive in. a) In this study, we mapped source and destination states for crime guns and mapped it against on activist organization's ...

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Not really. There was a lull in all mass public shooting (MPS) activity starting in 2000, including handgun, shotgun and rifle events. During this period [a] there was an large, pre-existing stockpile of such guns and [b] manufacturers altered non-essential features (such as

President Biden

@POTUS

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Last time we banned assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, it worked. I know progress is hard. But we’ve done it before, and we can do it again. It’s time.

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1) Includes suicides, for which guns are not a determinant variable. 2) Ownership rate (IIRC) was a proxy from suicide rates (circular reasoning). 3) D.C. number is completely inaccurate. Here is an accurate chart.

Chris Murphy 🟧

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It's hard to argue with the data. More guns = more gun deaths

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@JHU_CGVS 1) Suicides are the bulk. 2) Data shows that gun availability is not a determinate variable in suicide rates. Might want to tighten-up your agitprop, because this is so well known that even the average vote sees through your meme.

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@K12ssdb You appear to lack knowledge about gun shows. 1] Then vendor tables are likely all FFLs. They do background checks. 2] Many of the tables don't sell guns (zoom in on your own picture). 3] The rigors are so tight that gun shows account for less than 1% of crime guns, per the

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11 months

Without comment as we have not given the data complete attention. But the early 1990s national reaction to rising violent crime focused on repeat offenders. It looks as if those laws (commonly Three Strikes) didn't add that much to the inmate population, but contributed to the

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As our next project (slowly) progresses, we found this little data point. The top 12 counties for murder (which account for just under 25% of all homicides) have a higher firearm homicide rate than all the other counties that reported one or more murders. And not by a little

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In the 1980s, the psych industry pushed "deinstitutionalization" and governments bought-in because it saved money. Since then the USA has: * Lost 1/3rd of its psych beds * While the population was growing * Substituted confined treatment with a "release with pills" approach

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@gunfacts

9 months

Because John Hopkins ignores that suffocation suicides are rising at a faster rate than gun suicides indicates that John Hopkins should not be entrusted with anybody's health care.

Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions

@JHU_CGVS

9 months

The gun suicide rate has steadily increased, nearly uninterrupted, since 2006. In 2021 it reached the highest levels since the @CDCgov began recording in 1968—and this past year, in 2022, it surpassed that record. Our analysis of provisional CDC data:

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"The killer slept with journals on other school shootings under her bed ... and police recovered dozens of notebooks and drawings, including two “memoirs” and a hand-drawn map of the Covenant School." Planned attacks are more deadly.

Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale had handwritten notes on...

The report included new details about the attack — including the revelation that Hale's clothes were covered in handwritten notes, drawings and numbers. The report also noted that Hale wore a...

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7 months

@Sheeps62 @MomsDemand Data indicates the rate of firearm homicides stays steady or drops after switching from shall-issue concealed carry to permitless.

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@gunfacts

4 months

. @JoJoFromJerz goes on quite a rant here, but that her opening claims are statistically wrong is a good indication that most of her belief system is also incorrect. We'll only touch on a couple as the rest melt away quickly under the heat of the bright light of hard data.

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@JoJoFromJerz

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Republicans are doing their “it’s not the guns, it’s the mental health of the person” shit again, so I have to share this again: Guns are a uniquely American problem. The rest of the world has mental health issues. The rest of the world has ideological & philosophical division.

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Keep honesty in the gun debates by donating to Gun Facts today. Gun Facts is 100% financed by your donations. We do not take money from activist groups (pro- or anti-gun). This allows us to put accurate info into your discussions.

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Not really. Here is the gun, non-gun and total suicide rates for states by each state's ranking per the Everytown website (left-to-right, most gun laws to least). 1a) The correlation measure for the share of either gun or non-gun suicides is identical to Everytown's ranking

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1 year

@Everytown Aside from using non-standard data sources, you appear to have (yet again) included suicides. Here is an accurate chart. Notice that the covariance measure between gun availability and homicides if 0.02, which basically means no covariance at all.

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6 months

Per our journalist briefing page concerning the K12 database: The next problem is that their definition of “school shooting” is impossibly broad. Some examples of what could constitute a “school shooting” in their database includes: * Brandish a gun at a nighttime football game

K-12 School Shooting Database

@K12ssdb

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New York Times: “Gun violence at American schools is increasingly common: A gun has been wielded or fired on school property at least 344 times this year, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database.”

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@gunfacts

7 months

Their opening statement is statistically incorrect.

Newtown Action Alliance

@NewtownAction

7 months

Weak gun laws = more gun deaths. While Congress has failed to pass a universal background check bill, at least 20 now require background checks on all or most gun sales, including on private sales. Minnesota and Michigan were the latest states to enact such laws, passing them in

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While assembling a journalists' guide to gun policy information, we created a better version of a chart concerning accidental (unintentional) gun deaths over time. We knew the rate had been plunging, but this helps visualize the age groups. This drop occurred despite the average

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8 months

@K12ssdb Looks like gerrymandering has come to firearm policy propaganda. Here is a better way of illustrating the statistical reality, down to the county level factoring gun homicides in excess of what the local population would otherwise predict.

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1 year

A RAND study states: "Amassing arsenals is an inherent part of mass shootings plots." I have all of the mass public shooting databases. Arsenals are the exception, not the rule.

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In states that switched from shall-issue to permitless CCW, homicide rates stayed steady or fell.

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Sorry, no. The myth about most Cartel guns coming from the U.S. has been widely disassembled. Most cartel armament (including RPGs, land mines, etc.) are left-over from Soviet-supplied revolutionary groups.

AKs and ARs: Real assault rifles vs. mythical "assault weapons" | Gun Facts

Reporters need to understand the difference between "assault rifles" (which exists) and "assault weapons" (which is a politically invented phrase).

www.gunfacts.info

David Hogg 🟧

@davidhogg111

5 months

It’s crazy to me how much of this migration is driven by cartel violence and no one talks about how most guns recovered in Mexico from crimes come from the US especially from states with weak gun laws like Texas. If you want less refugees stop creating them.

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15 counties (0.5% of all), with 8% of the population, account for 25% of all gun murders. We dug in to discover what makes the Hot 15 so dangerous. Most of the problem is in a lack of policing which facilitates other issues to fester.

Top 15 Murder Counties | Gun Facts

0.5% of counties, with only 8% of the population account for 25% of gun homicides. We dug in to discover what make these Hot 15 counties so dangerous.

www.gunfacts.info

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10 months

Sounds like someone invented a new definition for "hate crime" like they did for "mass shooting". "There were 7,262 hate crime incidents involving 8,673 offenses ... 30% were crimes against property." So, ignoring crimes against property, we see at most 5,083 hate crimes, and

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@fred_guttenberg Interestingly not true. In all, the state where crime guns are recovered is where they were retailed (per ATF annual reports). Most others are legally acquired and migrate with their owners when they move, typically never more than a neighboring state.

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Despite using a non-gold standard source, The Trace illustrates something Gun Facts has discussed for years, namely "gang nexus" shootings. People in gangs, associated with gangs, or living gang "lifestyles" are indiscriminate in shooting events. They consider "collateral

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Since I lived in California for 22 years, I figured why not make a map for them too. Pretty much what you expect. LA has 32.2% of the state's murders but only 25.9% of the population.

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1 year

They need to stop saying it is "gun violence" given that 60% of gun deaths are suicides (for which substitution of means allows for alternatives) where as homicides are 36%.

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Whoever K12 hired for their social media propaganda is really bad at their job. They appear to lack any real knowledge about gun shows. 1] The vendor tables are likely all FFLs. They do background checks. 2] Many of the tables don't sell guns. 3] The rigors are so tight that

K-12 School Shooting Database

@K12ssdb

8 months

Myth: All gun sales have background checks. Fact: Lewiston (pictured) has one of the largest gun shows in Maine where any type of firearm can be bought with cash without any record of the sale. Note the assault rifles on the bottom left.

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"The court should be more concerned that Foehner is facing the rest of his natural life in a cage for what essentially amounts to an administrative faux pas—more time than Gonzalez, who had at least 15 prior arrests." Will be a technically-driven case.

He's facing life in prison for owning firearms without a license

The government agrees that Charles Foehner shot a man in self-defense. The elderly New York City man may spend decades behind bars anyway.

reason.com

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@PramilaJayapal If that were true, then gun violence would be proportionately spread. But instead, 24% of all gun homicides occur in just 15 counties, and the rate exceeding population in those counties is high.

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1 year

They don't. Most cartel arms are left-over Soviet imports while they were fostering revolutionaries.

Newtown Action Alliance

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1 year

Why do Mexican drug cartels cross the border to get guns? There is only one gun store in Mexico managed by their army. In the United States, federally licensed firearms dealers can sell dozens of AR-15s and AK-47s and thousands of rounds of ammunition to purchasers without even

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First, bravo to this web site for doing actual journalism. A key passage: "Since 2020, Maine’s yellow flag law has been used 81 times to prohibit people who are considered to be a risk to themselves or others from accessing firearms." For a state with less than 1.4 million

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1 year

In states that switched from shall-issue concealed carry to permitless, homicide rates either stayed steady or fell.

Brady | United Against Gun Violence

@bradybuzz

1 year

"The Florida Senate’s decision to pass this reckless bill is a complete abdication of their duty to keep Floridians safe,” our President @KrisB_Brown on the passage of lethal permitless concealed carry legislation in Florida.

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As much as we at Gun Facts detest discussing race in terms of violence, it has to be analyzed with everything else. This chart shows that, by-and-large, races kill mainly within their own race (white kill whites, blacks kill blacks, etc.). This is for all circumstances where the

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@tomcoates @davidhogg111 Different in a tactical sense, sure. But the point (let's not forget that) is that is reloading creates an opening for intervention, it applies in both situations.

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"Michael Rodriguez, head of Bronx Rises Against Gun Violence (BRAG), was among 15 suspects charged. Cops raided his home last week and allegedly found the drugs, more than $165,000 in cash and two illegal guns."

Head of NYC anti-violence program busted in massive upstate gun, drug...

The director of Bronx Rises Against Gun Violence, part of Mayor Eric Adams' strategy to take guns off the streets, was hit with weapons and drug charges in a massive upstate law enforcement sweep.

nypost.com

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One problem researchers face is that we don't know for sure the concentration of street gang members in any particular place. Studies of gangs show they are highly concentrated in major metro areas. We at Gun Facts will attempting to devise a reliable model to map the likely

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@GavinNewsom @GOP Not really. United States is on the far left of the chart.

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"The shooter ... told police the shooting spree was an attempt to help authorities address the city’s gun violence crisis and that a deity would be sending more people to help." Marking this one in our mass public shooting database as mentally ill.

Investigation continues into how Kingsessing mass shooting suspect got guns; Southwest Philly...

Kimbrady Carriker is in custody after allegedly killing five people and shooting two children.

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Without comment (still reviewing) except to say that if the numbers are correct, it is a rather important revelation. The claim is that while the FBI's reports 4.6% of active shooter events were stopped by civilians, the CPRC database sees at least 35.7%. Over 1/3rd. Please

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@FerrellZabala @Everytown The reason behind this is that any hobbyist who buys and sells a certain number of guns in a year is required to get a license. There aren't that many hamburger enthusiast to create the same situation for McDonalds.

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Let's break this down: "Universal" background checks: The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) tells us a rock-bottom minimum of 43% of crime guns come from street sources, which are immune to all laws, so nobody on the streets will conduct a background check. Everything else

President Biden

@POTUS

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It's time to require universal background checks, establish a national red flag law, require safe storage of firearms, and end immunity from liability for gun manufacturers. Congress, it's time to stand up to the gun lobby.

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