A similar analysis was first conducted by the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence , a non-profit gun policy advocacy group. The age-adjusted rate of firearm deaths per 100,000 people rose from 10.3 per 100,000 in 1999 to 12 per 100,000 in 2017. That's a difference of more than 7,000 deaths compared with 16,599 suicide deaths by guns in 1999. Firearm deaths in the data include gun deaths by homicide and suicide, unintentional deaths, deaths in war or legal interventions, and deaths that are undetermined. It is way past time that elected leaders at every level of government work together to make gun violence rare and abnormal."

Source: CNN December 13, 2018 16:27 UTC