10 Minutes – Length of time Adam Lanza was shooting
90 (more than) – Number of bullets shot
38 – Number of mass shootings in 2012
$50,000 – Average cost of medical treatment per homicide shooting victim
$2.3 Billion – Total lifetime medical costs for gunshot injuries (as of 1999)
$6 Million – Those medical costs per day
49 Percent – Amount of those lifetime medical costs paid by taxpayers
20 Percent – Number of gun owners with 65 percent of the firearms in the US
36,000 – Number of guns thrown away each year
16,808,538 – Number of applications to purchase guns in the US from January – November 2012 from legal dealers (does not include gun shows or private sales)
5X – Amount this could arm every NATO member state’s armed forces
88.8 – Number of firearms per 100 people in the US
80 – Percentage of firearms deaths in the 23 wealthiest countries in the world that are in the US
86 – Percentage of firearms deaths in the 23 wealthiest countries that are US women
87 – Percentage of firearms deaths in the 23 wealthiest countries that are US children under the age of 14
1 Percent – Number of gun dealers that account for almost 60 percent of guns used in crimes and recovered by police
30,000 – Average number of guns lost annually by gun dealers
22X – Likelihood a gun in the home will be used for a suicide than for self defense
7X – Chance a gun in the home will be used in a criminal assault rather than self-defense
200 – Number of annual legally justified self-defense homicides
90 Percent – Number of succesful suicide attempts with a gun
3 Percent – Number of successful suicide attempts with drugs or knives
44,500 – Number of annual gun injuries from assaults treated in emergency rooms
94 – Percentage of police chiefs favor requiring criminal background check for all handgun sales
87 – Percentage of non-NRA gun owners supporting background checks of gun purchasers
4,100 – Average number of women killed annually with guns
4.6 – Percentage increase in suicide risk for women in a house with a gun
3.4 Percent – Amount the homicide risk increases for women
$0.2998 – Cost of a 9mm pistol cartridge on Cabela’s per bullet (sold in a box of 50)
314,968,962 – Population of the US
310,000,000 – Number of non military guns in the US
67 – Percentage of gun owners who claim gun ownership for self protection
58 – Percentage who have a gun for hunting
60 Million – Number of guns in Yemen, the country with the next highest gun ownership rate behind the US
2004 – Year the law banning magazines with more than 10 rounds expired
2008 – Year legislation passed to prevent sales of guns to the mentally ill
26 – Percentage of Americans wanting a handgun ban in 2011 according to Gallup
60 – Percentage supporting a ban in 1959
70 – Percentage of Florida defendants invoking “stand your ground” who go free
73 – Percentage of Florida “stand your ground” defendants who killed a black person to go free
59 – Percentage of Florida “stand your ground” defendants killing a white person to go free
23 – Number of states where people who have lost their rights to firearms for mental health reasons can petition to reinstate them
1 – Number of members of my family killed at point blank range
2 – Number of his adult children who witnessed the shooting
4 – Number of semiautomatic handguns used in his murder
5 Years and 8 Months – Length of time from his death until I called it “gun violence”
2 – Days ago I started to use that term
4 – Number of guns I have fired this year
Photo by Robert M. Errera, from Flickr
Information from CNN, The Economist, The Brady Campaign, the Huffington Post, The Guardian
Very powerful, Jennifer!
Thank you… weirdly next I’m writing about hunting.