The Denver Accord: A Comprehensive Plan To Reduce Gun Violence Presented by GVPedia The Denver Accord is a comprehensive gun violence prevention platform, led by GVPedia and supported by more than 40 organizations nationally, designed to guide policymakers’ efforts to...
GVPedia explains why a "good guy" with a gun rarely keeps us safe from a "bad guy" with a gun. Help us spread the word by sharing. Sources: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/defensive-gun-ownership-myth-114262...
A naïve count analysis of academic studies from 1995-2018 indicates an evenly split literature on whether RTC Laws reduce, increase, or have no effect on crime. Focusing on modern studies (post 2005) with a national scope reveals that a majority find that RTC Laws...
A majority of states now have some form of Stand Your Ground Law The most consistent finding of academic studies is that Stand Your Ground laws increase homicides The overwhelming majority of academic studies find no deterrence effect on crime. Stand Your Ground laws...
In the United States in 2016, 5,664 female firearm deaths were recorded – 3,291 suicides and 2,202 homicides. (The remainder were undetermined, unintentional, or legal intervention.) Access to firearms increases the risk of being a homicide victim more for women than...
There were 14,415 firearm homicides in the US in 2016 Firearms make violent crime more lethal The US has significantly higher rates of homicide than other developed nations High gun ownership states have significantly higher firearm and overall homicide rates The...
There are 3 major estimates of Defensive Gun Use (DGU) frequency per year: Gary Kleck and private surveys: approximately 2.5 million. National Crime Victimization Survey: approximately 100,000. Gun Violence Archive (based on police and media reports): less than 2,000....
Aside from buybacks and laws that directly reduce gun ownership, firearm laws can only have an effect on the suicide rate of populations not previously exposed to firearms. Most firearm laws are not passed with reducing suicides as their primary intent, thereby...
There were 22,938 firearm suicides in the US in 2016 Firearms are the most lethal significant means of suicide with an 82.5% fatality rate, versus a fatality rate of 4% for all suicide attempts. Lethality matters, as approximately 90% of individuals don't attempt...