How much gun violence is there in the U.S?
About 1,000 crimes involving firearms are committed every day, and some 29,000 Americans are killed by firearms every year. Of those victims, about 11,000 are murdered, 17,000 use a gun to commit suicide, and nearly 1,000 die in accidents. (By comparison, the annual toll of gun deaths in Britain is about 100, and in Canada, 168.) Every day in the U.S., eight children alone die from a gun wound.
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