The Gun Violence Archive, an online database of gun violence incidents in the U. Using this definition, people died in these incidents in Regardless of the definition being used, fatalities in mass shooting incidents in the U. The same definitional issue that makes it challenging to arrive at an exact number of mass shooting fatalities comes into play when trying to determine the frequency of U.
The unpredictability of these incidents also complicates matters: As Rand Corp. The FBI found an increase in active shooter incidents between and The average number of incidents rose from 6. In subsequent studies, the FBI recorded 20 active shooter incidents per year in and , followed by 20 incidents in , 30 in and 27 in In , nine-in-ten law enforcement agencies submitted data to the FBI.
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It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. Pew Research Center does not take policy positions. In , there were 74, aggravated assaults where personal weapons, such as hands, fists, or feet, were used. There were a further 69, aggravated assaults where handguns were used. What are firearms? Firearms are portable weapons used to shoot bullets.
There are several different types of firearms, which include rifles, shotguns, machine guns, and pistols. Gun laws in the United States vary from state to state, where some states have stricter laws than others. Each state has their own constitution, which allows them to have their own interpretation of the Second Amendment of the Constitution.
Gun culture in the United States is a large part of certain regions , where they share similar attitudes and beliefs about firearms and their right to own them. Aggravated Assault Aggravated assault is an intended action to cause serious bodily harm to someone else. California saw the highest number of aggravated assaults in , with Texas, Florida, New York, and Illinois rounding out the top five. In contrast, the reported violent crime rate has decreased significantly since , meaning that the U.
Loading statistic Show source. Download for free You need to log in to download this statistic Register for free Already a member? Log in. Show detailed source information? Register for free Already a member? More information. Supplementary notes. Other statistics on the topic. In total, they were used in three-quarters of all homicides, a very low percentage of which were committed with assault-style rifles. For how dangerous they are made out to be, assault rifles were not found to be used in homicides very often.
Rifles were the weapon of choice in only 2. Using the Crime in the United States data, we also created a state-by-state breakdown of the percentage of murders using each weapon. For each type of weapon, we also tallied the ten states where it was used in the highest percentage of homicides. When comparing the gun crime statistics between states, we found that Vermont has the highest percentage of homicides committed using a rifle at Vermont has the third lowest murder rate in the country, with just 1.
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