HOW MARYLANDERS TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE INVITE YOU TO VIRTUAL LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY NIGHT! (974 hits)
For Immediate Release From Marylanders To Prevent Gun Violence!
WHAT: Marylanders to Prevent Gun Violence will be holding a virtual advocacy night to
kick-off the 2023 legislative session. We have three pieces of priority legislation this session: Child Access Prevention (CAP), strengthening permitting requirements, and identifying sensitive places. Most of our event will be about educating on these issues and legislation and of course, talking to people about how they can get involved.
Your weekly briefing on gun violence. Email Address Get the newsletter Weekly DailySubscribe Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Email a link to this page Data can help us understand the contours of a gun violence crisis that kills thousands of people a year and injures — both physically and mentally — tens of thousands more.
This year showed that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is still with us: gun deaths remain at near-record levels as communities across the country continue to struggle with both gun homicides and suicides. But 2022 was also a banner year for firearms law: Congress passed the first gun reform law in decades against the backdrop of a landmark Supreme Court ruling that expanded gun rights..
Here are some numbers that stood out to us in 2022.
20,138 The estimated number of firearm deaths, excluding suicides, in 2022
The number of gun deaths excluding suicides in 2022 declined slightly compared to 2021, a year that saw the most gun deaths on record. This total, tracked by the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive since 2014, includes murders, accidental shootings, and other homicides that law enforcement deemed legally justified.
Preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control also showed more than 48,000 firearm homicides and suicides in 2021 for the first time. The age-adjusted gun death rate of 14.8 per 100,000 people was the highest since 1993, a high-water mark for American gun violence. [Gun Violence Archive/The Trace]
