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Find up-to-date answers to your most common questions about gun violence in the United States.
School is the last place where we should have to worry about gun violence. But mass shootings, assaults, homicides, shootings by police, and unintentional shootings on school grounds all occur far too often. Find the most up-to-date information on gunfire on school grounds here.
As students, the last thing that we should have to worry about is gun violence in schools. It’s past time for the people in power to address common-sense solutions that make our schools safer. And we created a toolkit to empower students to help make that happen.
Everytown Research has compared gun policy across the country, scoring every state on the strength of its gun laws and comparing it with its rates of gun violence. In states where elected officials have taken action to pass gun safety laws, fewer people die by gun violence. If every state in the country had the gun death rates of our national leaders, we could save hundreds of thousands of lives in the next decade.
Use the Everytown Research Gun Law Rankings tool to see how your state stacks up.
EveryStat.org has data about how gun violence impacts each state and the United States as a whole. You can even look at county-level data within each state! (Scroll to the very bottom of the state page to find it.) Use EveryStat to learn about the following in the U.S. or your state:
- Gun suicides
- Gun homicides and assaults
- The demographics of people impacted by gun violence
- Gun violence among children and teens
- Intimate partner homicide by firearm
- The economic cost of gun violence
Several tools across Everytown’s websites can help you find this information.
- Learn about the Impact of Gun Violence on Historically Marginalized Communities
- Use EveryStat.org to explore how different people are impacted by gun violence by state and county
Research has shown that most people with mental health conditions are more likely to be the victims of violence than the perpetrators of it.
If you or someone you know is in crisis, please call or text 988, or visit 988lifeline.org/chat to chat with a counselor from the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline provides 24/7, free, and confidential support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress anywhere in the United States.
There are a lot of widespread myths and conflicting information about guns, gun violence, and gun safety laws in America. To set the record straight, we’ve developed a series of graphics to help you “fork over the facts” and dispel some of the most prominent myths about gun violence.
Learn more, then download and share our graphics to help you debunk some myths at the dinner table.
The Everytown Research website is a great place to start. (Pro tip: If you’re having trouble finding what you’re looking for, type your search term in your browser + Everytown to help point you in the right direction.)
You can also get answers on gun violence prevention with AskEverytown, our AI Chatbot. AskEverytown is here to help with statistics, laws, research, policy, and more. (Pro tip: While we’ve worked hard to make sure the responses you receive from AskEverytown are reliable, you should always check sources!)