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In a recent national survey, 81 percent of respondents said that they agree or strongly agree that individuals should receive training before owning a firearm.

Rowhani-Rahbar, A. et al. “Formal firearm training among adults in the USA: results of a national survey”. Injury Prevention: Journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention. (2018). https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2017-042352

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1 in 3 Black, Indigenous, and Latinx people know or care about someone who was killed with a gun.

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Police are twice as likely to threaten or use physical force during encounters with Latinx people than with white people.

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67 percent of known trans homicide victims who were killed with a gun were Black women.

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American Indian/Alaskan Native women are three times more likely than white women to be fatally shot by an intimate partner.

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