It's much harder to stir a national debate about the persistent problem of gun homicides in the country's poorest urban neighborhoods, even though more children die in urban gun violence than in school shootings, according to University of Pennsylvania criminologist John Macdonald. (scientificamerican.com)
Connecticut's law requiring handgun purchasers to first pass a background check and obtain a license, for example, was followed by a 40 percent drop in gun homicides and a 15 percent reduction in gun suicides. (vox.com)
Fifty - two thousand Americans died of overdoses in 2015 — about four times as many as died from gun homicides and half again as many as died in car accidents. (firstthings.com)