The United States faces a staggering gun violence crisis, with 13,286 firearm-related deaths reported in 2015 alone, excluding suicides. This year marked a grim reality, where mass shootings reached 372 incidents, resulting in 475 fatalities and over 1,800 injuries, according to data from the Mass Shooting Tracker.
Further highlighting the severity of this issue, the per capita gun murder rate in the US was nearly 30 times higher than that of the UK in 2012, at 2.9 per 100,000 compared to 0.1. With an estimated 300 million guns in civilian hands—almost one for every American—these statistics underscore a critical public safety challenge that continues to provoke national debate.
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