On that same average day, another 200-plus are wounded by guns, which translates into 80,000 a year. With the murders caused by guns, the accidental deaths caused by guns, and the law-enforcement killings caused by guns, the average comes out to more than 100 Americans killed by bullets every day. Of those 40,000 gun fatalities, more than half of them are suicides, which in turn account for about half of all suicides per year. Each year, approximately 40,000 Americans are killed by gunshot wounds, which is roughly equivalent to the annual rate of traffic deaths on American roads and highways. The numbers of those killed and injured in each incident do not include the perpetrators.Ĭcording to a recent estimate by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute, there are 393 million guns currently owned by residents of the United States-more than one firearm for every man, woman, and child in the country. This is a small selection from that body of work. Over the course of two years, Spencer Ostrander made several trips around the country to take pictures of the sites of more than 30 mass shootings.
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