$838M

Taxpayer savings from reduced gun violence through the first six months of 2024.

Source: Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, “Calculate the Economic Cost of Gun Violence,” February 9, 2023, https://everytownresearch.org/report/economic-cost-calculator/; Everytown Research analysis of Gun Violence Archive, Assault-Related Fatal and Nonfatal Shootings, accessed July 26, 2024, https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/, Count difference: January–June 2023 vs. January–June 2024.

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31 percent

There were at least 144 incidents of gunfire on school grounds in the 2023-2024 school year, a 31 percent increase from the prior school year.

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-14%

Assault-related gun deaths and injuries dropped 14 percent in the first six months of 2024.

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54%

In a 2022 survey of nearly 1,000 US teachers, 54 percent expressed the belief that allowing teachers to carry firearms for school security would decrease overall safety.

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3/4

An analysis of over five decades of active shooter incidents in K–12 schools found that in three in four of these incidents, the shooter or shooters were school-age and were current or former students.

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