By the end of 2023, there will be 650 large-scale** incidents in the United States throughout the year, which is the second-worst number since the Gun Violence Archive** began collecting data in 2014, according to the Australian News Network on December 31**.
The Gun Violence Archive** is a non-profit project that collects data from local newspapers and police departments to build a national gun violence database. It defines a large-scale event as one in which at least four people are injured or killed, not including those who are killed.
Only the year-end figures for 2021 are worse than this year, when there were 690 large-scale** incidents, while the 2002 figure dropped to 647 and rose slightly this year, according to the report.
The reason why large-scale ** events continue to occur is simple: there are more guns than people in the United States.
Specifically, according to the Swiss research institute Light ** survey project, there are about 120 per 100 inhabitants5 guns. The agency estimates that the number of guns in circulation in 2018 was 3900 million.
Kelly Delanene, a researcher at Gifoz, said the problem has worsened in recent years, especially in the wake of the pandemic. The Giffords organization is named after former Arizona Congressman Gabrielle Giffords, who was seriously injured in a ** during her 2011 term.
"We've seen an increase in gun purchases during the pandemic, in 2020 and in 2021," Drene said. We're seeing a lot of people who didn't have guns before buying guns, which means that more American households own guns than in previous years. (Compiled by Qing Songzhu).
*: Refer to the news network.