Thread by @teamtrace

1/The Trace launched just after the Charleston church shooting. We’ve covered several events like Las Vegas, where death toll is 10+.

2/Shootings like the one in Las Vegas are horrifying. In the aftermath, Americans try to make sense of our gun violence problem.

3/So for new followers, some important facts we’ve learned covering this issue, even when it’s not in the headlines. thetrace.org/2017/06/14-fac…

4/As you may have read, Las Vegas is at least the 28th mass shooting with 3 or more fatalities in 10 years. facebook.com/nytimes/posts/…

5/Even with that frequency, mass shootings account for only 2% of our annual gun deaths. thetrace.org/2017/01/unders…

6/That’s partly why U.S. has gun death rate 25 times higher than other high-income nations. thetrace.org/2016/01/us-gun…

7/The other 98% of our gun deaths? A mix of suicides, domestic violence shootings, and young black men dying in American cities.

8/Every 16 hours, an American woman is fatally shot by a current or former romantic partner. thetrace.org/2016/02/woman-…

9/That says nothing of the horror many women live through when their abusers use guns to coerce and intimidate. thetrace.org/2016/10/nonfat…

10/Gun suicides, which make up majority of gun deaths, are rising in 21 states. thetrace.org/2017/05/states…

11/But gun violence hits people of color the hardest. Most shooting victims are black men. thetrace.org/2015/12/gun-vi…

12/Another measure of the racial disparity in gun violence: 73% of victims of multiple casualty shootings are black. nytimes.com/2016/05/23/us/…

13/There are also accidental shootings. A child dies in one every week—and that's likely an undercount. usatoday.com/story/news/201…

14/In Vegas, the 59 deaths and 500+ casualties is an outsized reminder that for every person shot and killed, more are wounded.

15/Gunshot survivors’ injuries cost hospitals and taxpayers ~millions $ per year.
thetrace.org/2017/08/gunsho…

16/Americans don’t grasp scale of gun violence. Polls show ppl think 5,000 killed annually, when it's really 33,000.
washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2…

17/And 41% of Americans think we have universal background checks. 100% of them are wrong. thetrace.org/2016/02/41-per…

18/At The Trace, we use nonprofit journalism to shrink knowledge gaps around gun violence. Sign up to get the facts: thetrace.us11.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=ed…