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Current public data do not provide a single “percentage that a Black person will commit murder” for the United States; available sources report homicide victimization rates and offender counts by race...
Available international rankings show several small, high‑income countries with extremely low firearm death rates; among countries commonly cited for the lowest gun‑death rates are Singapore and sever...
States governed by Democratic majorities generally have —including universal background checks, permitting regimes, assault-weapons restrictions, and broader use of extreme risk (red flag) laws—while ...
Las estimaciones convergen en que las fuerzas de seguridad de Estados Unidos matan entre aproximadamente 900 y 1,400 personas por año, con la mayoría de bases de datos independientes y medios situando...
Motives for partisan gun violence vary across ideological lines: researchers and watchdogs report that right-wing violence has often been driven by racial supremacy and opposition to government author...
Multiple major reviews and advocacy scorecards conclude that stricter state gun laws are associated with lower gun death rates and that specific policies—like background checks, secure-storage/child-a...
Conservative-leaning states that consistently appear among the highest in per-capita gun death rates include Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, New Mexico and Alaska; the Violence Policy Center and CDC ...
Charlie Kirk made the remark that “it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment” while defending an armed citizenry as the pr...
National data and city studies show large, persistent racial gaps: recent summaries report Black homicide victimization rates roughly 6–8 times higher than White rates (for example, 20.6 vs. 3.3 per 1...
Data and reporting show political violence in the U.S. spans the ideological spectrum, but most historical incidents and fatalities have been linked to right-wing extremists; several recent analyses n...
The United States has a layered and uneven gun-control regime: federal baseline statutes (the Gun Control Act and the National Firearms Act) set nationwide prohibitions and controls, while states add ...
States that have changed party control show no single, uniform trajectory in ; broader patterns in the data suggest regional differences, the strength of state-level , and non‑legislative factors tend...
has recently codified a targeted fix that lets eligible first‑time, nonviolent Class 4 felony gun offenders apply for a Firearm Owner’s Identification (FOID) card while participating in a court‑approv...
There is no definitive count in the provided reporting that states how many school shooters in 2025 were white males; Education Week tallied 18 school shootings in 2025 that resulted in injury or deat...
States with stricter gun laws are, in aggregate, associated with lower gun death rates and often lower firearm homicide rates, but the relationship is correlational rather than uniformly causal in 202...
Beto O’Rourke has repeatedly said he supports banning new sales of assault-style rifles and endorsed a mandatory federal buyback and—in 2019—declared “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR‑15, your AK...
Charlie Kirk has repeatedly spoken against red flag laws and in favor of broad Second Amendment protections, arguing such measures threaten civil liberties; his podcast and website contain episodes an...
On January 8, 2011, a gunman opened fire at a “Congress on Your Corner” constituent event outside a Safeway supermarket in Casas Adobes (Tucson), Arizona, wounding Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 12 other...
AK-47–style rifles are in U.S. violent crime overall; the bulk of firearm crime is committed with handguns, while rifles of all types account for a small single-digit share of homicides and violent in...