15 April 2023 :
(April 15, 2023) - On the sidelines of a news story from New Mexico, some statistics relating to the possession of firearms in the United States, and the resulting deaths, are reported.
About 40 percent of US households have guns, according to the Pew Research Center.
There were an estimated 44,000 gun-related deaths in the United States last year, about half of them murder cases, accidents and self-defense, and half of them suicides, according to the Gun Violence Archive database.
It showed that 14 people have been shot or killed in what the archive terms “officer-involved incidents” in New Mexico this year.
More than 5,000 people in the United States have died of firearm-related violence in 2023, according to the archive.
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