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GUN VIOLENCE A BREAKDOWN OF THE WORST STATES
The news out of Parkland, Florida about the 17 people killed continues to stun. There’s the alleged shooter Nikolas Cruz who is said to have brought a legally purchased AR-15 to school. Lately we’ve learned an armed deputy didn’t go into the school. While he’s disputing the why and whether he should or should not have, the bottom-line is violence is a problem in our society.
However, the carnage doesn’t stop there. Statistics recently dug up by 24/7 Wall St. say gun deaths occur from one-on-one homicides, from suicides and from accidents:
By the way, we use the words “alleged” and “said to” deliberately since one is assumed not guilty of a crime until found guilty in a court of law.
24/7 Wall St. — Individual State Findings:
The crime at the Florida high school is one of the 10 deadliest in U.S. history and three of that 10 have occurred in the last five months.
In 2016 the U.S. saw 38,658 firearm deaths
4 22,938 of that number are suicides 4 14,415 were homicides 4 Half of the 10 most deadly are in
the South
4 Six of the 10 are the poorest states 4 In all but 5 states over half of all gun
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