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Wednesday s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida claimed 17 lives and injured more than a dozen others. It was not the first mass shooting - or even the first shooting at a school - in 2018. Below are some statistics on gun ownership and gun violence in America.357 MillionThat was the number of guns in the United States in 2013, according to a Washington Post review of data from the Congressional Research Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. At the time that figure was determined, there were only 317 million people living in the United States ndash; meaning the country had roughly 4
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0 million more firearms than residents.3 percentThat s the percentage of people who own over half of the nation s guns, according to survey data compiled by researchers at Harvard University and Northwestern University.
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400,000That s the number of firearms stolen every year, according to the same Harvard/Northwestern survey data.Over 3 millionThat s the number of times federal, state, or local background checks have denied a gun to person prohibited from owning one, according to a Department of Justice study published in 2016. 18That s the number of times a weapon has been fired on school grounds in 2018, according to Everytown for Gun Safety, a group that favors stricter regulations on guns.
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In eight of the incidents, a gun was fired but no one was injured.Two of the incidents were suicides.Of the o Giaf Cusack Appears In New MoveOn Ad
Top Senate Republicans called a press conference Wednesday to hail the confirmation of Judge Leslie Southwick to a federal appeals court seat in Mississippi, but they spent more time hailing a Democrat from California.Sen. Dianne Feinstein D-Calif. had emerg
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n liberal interest groups aligned against Southwick.By the time Southwick cleared the Senate on Wednesday in a 59-38 vote, following months of debate over judicial diversity, minority rights and racial sensitivity, Feinstein had become the Democrat that Republicans love. She even showed up at the press conference, where Sen. Arlen Specter R-Pa. asked her to speak before the Mississippi senators who lined up the votes for Southwick.This may be out of precedent, Specter said, but if I may, with the concurrence of the home-state senators, yield to the hero mdash; the lady mdash; of the day, Sen. Feinstein. I donrsquo;t know about this heroine business, Feinstein demurred.Moments later, Sen. Trent Lott R-Miss. got choked up talking about her.She took a tough stand and showed a lot of courage, Lott said, tears collecting in his eyes and his voice quivering. It is emotional for me beca