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Killers With Guns: How Many People Have Been Shot To Death Since Newtown?

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Since the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, we atSlate have been wondering how many people are dying from guns in America every day.

That information is surprisingly hard to come by. The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, for example, has a tally atop its website of “people shot in America.” That number, though, is an estimate, based on the number of gun injuries and deaths recorded by the CDC in 2008 and 2009, the most recent years for which statistics are available. It seems shocking that when guns are in the headlines every day, there’s no one attempting to create a real-time chronicle of the deaths attributable to guns in the United States.

Well, someone is. Since this summer, the anonymous creator of the Twitter feed @GunDeaths has been doing his best to compile those statistics, tweeting every reported death he can find. He was inspired, he told us in a phone interview, by the Aurora, Colo., shootings and simply wanted to call daily attention to the toll that guns take. Now Slate is partnering with @GunDeaths to create this interactive feature, “Gun Deaths in America Since Newtown.” readmorehere



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    • grandma

      How many children died from physical abuse( 3.1 children a day) 200,000 people a year die from medical errors why aren’t u people that want to ban guns out there getting doctors license pulled and I guess we should all start walking everywhere because car accidents kill so many a year we are going to have to give up are cars. I would also like to know what u people and politcians are planning to do once u take all the guns away from all of us law abiding citizens and the 3/4 of the world that hates Americans and want to wipe us out realize we all are unarmed now u politicians do realize that they may kill a bunch of us poor people but they are going to be coming for u and your families u are the ones that have passed the laws that have killed there families and friends, your the ones with money those of u in congress have been told by your own officals the DEA DHS and others that we have Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations in the US we have 100 of gangs with ties to the drug cartels that have ties with the Al Qaeda . It’s a fact that the government found plans from terriost organisation that they plan to attack are schools so I really can’t understand

    • Kurt

      How many people died? On US highways in just one day
      How may gang shootings that have nothing to do with legal gun owners thugs have died?
      How many people died from cigarettes in one day?
      Seriously we could do this all day long and the legal gun deaths is nil compared to everything else there is including death from household falls if you want to get insane here. There are millions on legal gun owners who shoot regularly at targets and on ranges using all kinds of guns including so-called assault rifles and they aren’t hurting anyone. In comparison legal guns are far less dangerous then chocking on flood in one day. Get your head out of you butts.

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