(Exc Interactive Map) How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown? Death Tally 1044

[sasha031]

Slate partners with @GunDeaths for an interactive, crowdsourced tally of the toll firearms have taken since Dec. 14.

he answer to the simple question in that headline is surprisingly hard to come by. So Slate and the Twitter feed @GunDeaths are collecting data for our crowdsourced interactive. This data is necessarily incomplete. But the more people who are paying attention, the better the data will be. You can help us draw a more complete picture of gun violence in America. If you know about a gun death in your community that isn’t represented here, please tweet @GunDeaths with a citation. (If you’re not on Twitter, you can email [e-mail].) And if you’d like to use this data yourself for your own projects, it’s open. You can download it here.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2012/12/gun_death_tally_every_american_gun_death_since_newtown_sandy_hook_shooting.html

[Duckhunter935]

1. would be nice to know

Type of gun used, suicide or homicide, legal or illegal to have that weapon using existing laws. I agree it is way to many and we need to fix this in the most efficient way.

[bowens43]

2. bottom line is in that every single case a gun was used

Can't have gun violence without guns. The most efficient way to this is to ban the sale and possession of any and all ammunition and most firearms.


Obtaining ammunition should be extremely difficult and extremely expensive.

[Duckhunter935]

3. good luck with that

works very well for drugs. They are very hard to obtain and ammunition lasts virtually forever if properly stored. You going to do house to house searches. How about reloading? In a perfect world and starting with no guns or ammunition out there you may have a point.

[sasha031]

4. if you read the headline, I typed (Interactive Map)

hit the dead bodies then source, it leads to the the original news report.