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Every day, 375 Americans get shot — and 100 die
Only large mass shootings make national news, but epidemic fatal gun violence is an unrelenting daily reality in the United States.
Guns kill about 100 people and wound 275 more every single day in our country.
Mass shootings comprise less than 1% of all US gun deaths, but those massacres can help us conceptualize the impact of 100 daily gun deaths: That’s like 2 Orlando nightclub shootings every day, or 3 Virginia Techs, 4 Sandy Hooks, 5 El Pasos, 6 Parklands, 7 San Bernadinos, 8 Auroras, 9 Pittsburgh synagogues, 10 Santa Fe High Schools, or 11 Charleston church shootings.
Every. Single. Day.
This happens because we allow it.
Firearms murder and maim hundreds of American men, women, and children every day because we want this carnage.
Because we choose to have this daily flood of blood on our hands.
This unremitting mass tragedy is eminently preventable. We know exactly how to end this epidemic of daily gun deaths. If we chose to do so, we could, within a few years, cut gun violence by 90% — to the levels seen in the rest of the world’s richest nations.
Before reviewing those remedies, we need to unpack the statistics on firearm casualties to understand the broad outlines of our…
