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    Refinery29: Police Shootings Play A Major Role In National Gun Violence Statistics

    6.5.2020

      “We cannot talk about ending gun violence without also talking about police brutality,” said Moms Demand Action organizer Lisa Hendricks on Twitter. 

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      Every day, nearly 130 people in the United States are killed with guns, twice as many are shot and wounded, and countless others are impacted by acts of gun violence.

      Everytown Research analysis of CDC, WONDER, Provisional Mortality Statistics, Multiple Cause of Death, 2021–2025; Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project nonfatal firearm injury data, 2020; and SurveyUSA, Market Research Study #26602, 2022.

      Last updated: 10.7.2026