Every Day on Average (ages 0-19)
Every day,
46 children and teens are shot in murders, assaults, suicides & suicide attempts, unintentional shootings, and police intervention.
Every day,
7 children and teens die from gun violence:
- 4 are murdered
- 3 die from suicide
Every day,
40 children and teens are shot and survive:
- 31 injured in an attack
- 1 survives a suicide attempt
- 8 shot unintentionally
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Note: Numbers may not sum because of rounding of CDC averages.
Every Day on Average (all ages)
Every day,
318 people in America are shot in murders, assaults, suicides & suicide attempts, unintentional shootings, and police intervention.
Every day,
96 people die from gun violence:
- 34 are murdered
- 59 die from suicide
- 1 killed unintentionally
- 1 killed by legal intervention
- 1 died but was intent unknown
Every day,
222 people are shot and survive:
- 164 injured in an attack
- 10 survive a suicide attempt
- 45 shot unintentionally
- 3 are shot in a legal intervention