350
Every year, nearly 350 children under the age of 18 unintentionally shoot themselves or someone else.
Everytown for Gun Safety. “#NotAnAccident Index”. Everytown for Gun Safety. (2019). everytownresearch.org/notanaccident
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85%
In a recent survey of 2,500 likely voters, 85 percent of respondents favored Congress passing an Extreme Risk law.
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82%
82 percent of traced guns with a short time-to-crime that crossed state lines came from states without background check laws.
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76%
76 percent of traced guns that crossed state lines came from states without background check laws.
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21×
Young Black men are 21 times more likely to be shot and killed by police than their white counterparts.
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