Report: CDC records highest-ever number of gun-related deaths in 2020

[AndyS]

An average of 124 people died from gun violence every day in 2020, according to a new report from the Center for Gun Violence Solutions

"While gun violence affects people from all walks of life, the burden is not distributed evenly across the U.S. As the report details, gun violence varies widely by state and across demographic groups," says Ari Davis, policy adviser at the Bloomberg School's Center for Gun Violence Solutions and lead author of the report. "Policymakers who want to take action can look to states with lower gun-related deaths and adopt these evidence-based strategies like purchaser licensing and firearm removal laws."

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This is not rocket science, we know what works and can see it working in states that have tougher gun regulations. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH US? Are 124 deaths a day not enough to get our attention?

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[patphil]

1. 124 X 365 equals 45,260 gun deaths in one year!

But, we need more guns! We need open carry! We don't need background checks!
Laws that limit our right to bear arms are unconstitutional!
More guns will make us safer!

Over 45 thousand people found the "safety" of the grave in 2020.

[Initech]

2. I don't want to use the H word or the G word but that does seem to be where the NRA is headed.

It seems like our gun laws are getting weirder and weirder and the only solution to a gun problem is to throw more guns at it. Got news for you guys, this ain't the wild west anymore. So stop acting like it.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Thanks for the great link, Andy. It's fascinating to read and weep over.

Thanks to your influence, I am now donating to one of the anti-gun groups (can't remember the name). It's not much, but it's what I can do.

[AndyS]

5. The amount is not important, voices are and your voice added to mine and to thousands of others

will become loud enough to drown out the voice of the gun culture, the culture of death and injury.

Enough soft whispers can deafen the shouts of the few . . .

[Aristus]

4. I don't understand why the NRA gun-fucks are so angry, and so fearful about gun control.

They have exactly the country they want; exactly the country they've been striving for ever since they hijacked the NRA and turned it from a gun-safety and marksmanship organization, into a murderous corporate lobbying mob.

They have exactly the country they've always wanted. Why are they still so angry?

[Frasier Balzov]

6. Seems obvious that this is the nation that a majority of Americans prefer.

Sandy Hook, Pulse nightclub, Mandalay Bay Las Vegas, Parkland...

Just some of the marquee atrocities. The daily toll of killed and maimed is nothing more than cosmic background radiation.

I'm done blaming the NRA. The problem rests squarely with the electorate.

[AndyS]

8. NO! A large majority of Americans want more strict gun regulation.

Only 9% want LESS regulation.

The gun industry and culture outspend anti violence groups many times over. IT"S THE FUCKING MONEY!!

Until we start BUYING Republican legislators like the NRA, GOA, AND THE REST OF THE GUN INDUSTRY we will get what we have now.

The Government we can afford.

[BlackSkimmer]

7. Who is shooting whom?

And why?

[Dial H For Hero]

12. Per the linked report, a bit over half of them are suicides.

Young black males are vastly overrepresented in the homicide numbers. They are 20 times more likely to be killed in a homicide than their white counterparts. Despite being less than 2% of the population, they comprise 38% of the homicides.

[BlackSkimmer]

13. A young black man killed another in my town last week.

We don’t have many murders, but this is certainly the pattern.

A neighboring city reports at least one, two, or three a week. Heard one this morning on the local news - 19 year old black man killed another 19:year old black man. Madness.

[maxsolomon]

9. Collective Shrug.

The majority (>50%) of the yearly gun deaths are suicides, and access to firearms is a pretty fucking key indicator of success in a suicide attempt. All the SUCCESSFUL suicides I've personally known of used guns.

Yet suicides are barely part of the conversation when we discuss firearms - and when a celebrity like Wynona Judd kills herself, we have no idea if it was a gun or pills or she threw herself off the Tallahatchie Bridge. It's private, and unseemly to discuss.

Gun Laws are only going 1 way: towards liberalization, either via legislation in Red States or via judicial action in Blue States.

Gun sales are a self-reinforcing loop: I need a gun to protect myself from other people with guns.

We're living in Gunner America now. This is how Gunners want it. Nothing's going to change for a generation or 2.

[maxsolomon]

11. Things are being done

but they're going the wrong way, towards liberalization. America has a death wish.