So far this year, over 7,600 people have been killed by firearms (not including suicides) in the United States, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
In that same time frame, active shooter incidents nearly doubled. The FBI designates an active shooter as “one or more individuals who are engaged in killing or attempting to kill in a populated area.” In 2021,in the United States killed 103 people. In 2017, the number of incidents was 31, though deaths totaled 143.
In 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health awarded a combined $25 million in grants for research on gun violence prevention, ending a
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