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Cities with Walkable Neighborhoods have approximately half the rate of people who die by gun suicide.

Source: Everytown analysis of CDC NVSS city firearm suicide data, 2016–2020, and NYU City Health Dashboard data on Park Access, 2018. Analysis features 750 cities.

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Every day, more than 120 people in the United States are killed with guns, twice as many are shot and wounded and countless others are impacted by acts of gun violence.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. WONDER Online Database, Underlying Cause of Death. A yearly average was developed using four years of the most recent available data: 2018 to 2021.

Last updated: 2.13.2023