Over 33,000 people are fatally shot in the United States every year, but other than being recognizably big, that number doesn't exactly mean much. Thanks to a complex new graphic by FiveThirtyEight, though, gun deaths are now a lot easier for someone to contextualize — and hopefully eliminate, as a result.
The graphic crunches numbers from several different sources including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as the FBI, the Global Terrorism Database, the University of Minnesota's IPUMS project, and reporting by Mother Jones. It allows users to sort and map fatalities based on factors like cause, gender, age, and race. Some of the results are pretty sobering:
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