CNN (12/13, Howard) reports on its website that there were almost 40,000 gun deaths in the U.S. last year, “the highest number…in decades,” according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence first analyzed the data, and then later “CNN replicated that analysis and found that 39,773 people died by guns in 2017, which is an increase of more than 10,000 deaths from the 28,874 in 1999.”
The Hill (12/13, Gstalter) reports the number includes “an estimated 14,542 people…killed in homicides with guns,” “an estimated 23,854 people” who “died from suicide using guns in 2017,” as well as 486 “unintentional” gun deaths, 338 “undetermined” deaths, and 553 that “contributed to legal intervention and operations of war.”
Related Links:
— “Gun deaths in US reach highest level in nearly 40 years, CDC data reveal, “Jacqueline Howard, CNN, December 13, 2018.