Despite No Federal Gun Laws, Non-Suicide Gun Fatalities Dropped

By Tom Knighton

Anti-gun groups and activists cry all the time about how Congress hasn’t passed gun control. They can’t accept any solution to violence, crime, or anything else it seems that doesn’t start and end with gun control. It’s their whole reason for existing, apparently. Well, not their only one, but anyway…

Over the past handful of years, there have been no real gun control measures passed at the federal level. Despite that, even The Trace has to admit something they’d rather not. Gun-related fatalities, not counting suicides, are down.

At least 14,611 Americans were killed by guns last year, excluding most suicides, according to data collected by Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit that tracks shootings through media and law enforcement reports. That’s a nearly 7 percent drop compared to last year, and the first decline recorded by GVA in its five-year history.

GVA records and publishes data on gun incidents in real time, and this figure represents one of the earliest estimates of gun violence in 2018. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which tracks firearms mortality, typically takes almost a year to release data on gun deaths. Since 2014, when GVA launched, its …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms