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User 85168 · Jul 13, 2016

FiveThirtyEight explores the different causes for gun deaths in America with a series of features. More than 33,000 are shot and killed in the US each year. These articles focus on the data side of the story, as the publication is to do, but they also focus on individuals impacted by gun violence, in all types and forms. I've decided against posting choice quotes from every article, due to the number of articles, but they are all definitely worth the read. The main page also contains an interactive visualization of the gun death data in US.

Suicides (62.7% of all gun deaths)

Surviving Suicide in Wyoming

Self-reliance helps people thrive in a landscape thats big and tough, but it can also put them at risk if they get into a personal crisis.

Always Ready, Always There

When service members die by suicide, their deaths look a lot like civilian suicides the same people, the same risk predictors, and the same means.

Homicides (34.9% of all gun deaths)

New Orleans Searches For The Truth

Cities have made great strides in reducing murders of young men. The next step will be much harder.

In The Shadow of Exile

Cities around the country tried to stop gun violence by sending offenders to faraway prisons. Rochester is still dealing with the consequences.

How To Protect Women

To break the deadly cycle of domestic abuse, authorities are trying to enforce the laws already on the books.

Where Background Checks Work

Homicides rose after Missouri loosened its gun laws. That carries lessons for everywhere else.

Gun, Badge, Camera

Police departments are embracing body camera technology in the hope it will help protect their officers and the public.

The Mass Shooting Fix

Looking abroad for ways to reduce the number of shootings in America doesnt offer easy solutions.

Instrument of Terror

Terrorist attacks in the U.S. increasingly take the form of mass shootings.

Accidents (1.6% of all gun deaths)

What Counts As An Accident?

When it comes to gun deaths, medical examiners and public health scientists dont agree on what accidental really means.

kirblar · Jul 13, 2016

The data on the Military is very interesting- it suggests that the military overall doesn't actually have a unique problem w/ suicide, it just contains large numbers of the most vulnerable group. (Hard to read into the National Guard data without seeing a similar adjusted population line.)

dramatis · Jul 13, 2016

A bit unfortunate that places like 538 have to pick up the slack in gun-related research because the CDC can't do it, but it's a great series of articles. The graphics are quite easy to understand and good to share regardless of positions or stances.

Nelo Ice · Jul 13, 2016

Thanks for the link just got through the first article on suicides. This is gonna take awhile to read through and process.

entremet · Jul 13, 2016

Woah at suicides.

If only this research wasn't banned.

Men and suicide is a big problem.

This is what MRAs should've focused on instead of picking fights with feminists online.

LucidMomentum · Jul 13, 2016

entremet said:
This is what MRAs should've focused on instead of picking fights with feminists online.

The sad thing is, MRA's often go hand in hand with the type of toxic masculinity in culture that is often a cause for men's suicide.

User 85168 · Jul 14, 2016

What shocked and surprised me the most was how ineffective some states are/were at collecting guns from individuals who had restraining orders. It's heartbreaking to read a story like this:

Nikki Elias did everything right. She filed for divorce from her abusive husband, Ian, in 2008 a move that prompted a bitter, years-long custody fight over their two daughters. Ian started threatening her, and, given his violent past, she did what victims of domestic abuse are advised to do to protect themselves. She changed her daily routine, took the girls out of their school in Portland, Oregon, and filed for a restraining order.

Nikki said in her restraining order petition that Ian was obsessed with his collection of guns; he would post photos and videos of himself on Facebook and YouTube carrying firearms and talking about their custody dispute. Each restraining order and protective order, as well as their civil parenting case, required Ian to give up his guns, but officials never made sure he did so.

In 2014, six years after she filed for divorce, Nikki was living on her own with the girls, at that point 7 and 8, in Southwest Portland. She and Ian were still arguing over custody, and he still had his guns. On a Monday morning in November, Ian broke through Nikkis front door carrying a gun. Neighbors told the police they heard five or six shots and saw Ian come out with the girls, leaving Nikki dead. He took the children to his house across the city. As a police tactical squad surrounded his Northeast Portland home, he went to the rear porch and fatally shot himself. The girls were physically unharmed.

greatestjediever · Jul 14, 2016

Vox had a piece about this last year: http://www.vox.com/2015/10/3/9444417/gun-violence-united-states-america

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