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How Many People Were Shot Near Your Home This Year: Find Out With This Interactive Map
In the wake of last week’s massacre in San Bernardino, gun violence is once again the topic du jour in America.
Gun control crusaders claim the problem is easy access to firearms while gun advocates say America would actually be safer if more responsible citizens obtained concealed carry permits. In between the two extremes are those who support tougher background checks and/or limits on what type of firearms citizens should legally be allowed to purchase.
And the debate doesn’t just center around the string of mass shootings that have unfolded across the US over the past several years. There are also very real concerns about the proliferation of gun violence in cities like Chicago and Baltimore.
The debate reaches to the highest levels of government with politicians on both sides of the aisle weighing and indeed, just two days ago The Supreme Court came down on the side of limiting access to “assault weapons”, a classification which one Illinois resident called “pejorative” in a complaint.
Given all the attention the issue has received of late, you might be curious to know just how prevalent gun violence actually is where you live. Fortunately, there’s a map for that courtesy of Slate and The Trace, an independent, nonprofit news organization dedicated to expanding coverage of guns in the United States.
Utilizing data from the Gun Violence Archive, The Trace has developed an interactive map which allows you to discover how many fatal and non-fatal shooting have occurred in a particular area. Essentially, the map uses location data to find where you are, and tells you if anyone has been shot there recently.
(click for interactive version)
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Excerpts from "How Many People Have Been Shot Near You This Year", by Alex Yablon and Chris Kirk, as published in The Trace
In relentless succession, a parade of towns and cities have this year joined the bloodstained ranks of American mass shooting locations. The mere mention of the places — Charleston, Chattanooga, Colorado Springs, San Bernardino — evokes images made familiar at Columbine and Virginia Tech and Tucson and Newtown: the police battalions rushing to respond, the shocked survivors and bereft loved ones, the eerie portraits of newly infamous killers.
But the truth is that these cities and towns and the events that now define them, however lethal they were and however large they understandably loom, comprise just a small fraction of the gun violence recorded in America during this or any year. In 2013, the last year for which government statistics are available, less than 2 percent of more than 33,000 gun deaths in the country were due to mass shootings. Tallies of gun-related fatalities are in turn dwarfed by totals for gun injuries. Every 12 months, more than 130,000 people are shot; many are left with devastating physical impairments and crippling health care bills.
Thanks to a nonprofit, nonpartisan project known as the Gun Violence Archive, data on gun homicides and non-fatal shootings is now available well before the federal government releases its statistics. That data includes location information that makes it possible to plot those shootings on a map showing how many have taken place in your vicinity. Where someone was killed, the shooting is coded in red (this includes multiple victim incidents with a mix of fatalities and injuries). Shootings resulting in injuries but not deaths are coded in yellow.
In all, the map contains 30,284 incidents recorded by the Gun Violence Archive from December 5, 2014 to December 5, 2015. As comprehensive as it is, it’s also incomplete: Guns are used in twice as many suicides as homicides (and are the most lethal means of suicide). But because many suicides are not reported in real time by the law enforcement sites and news outlets that the GVA mines in compiling its database, they are missing from this visualization.
What you’re seeing, then, is gun violence in all its other forms: homicides, attempted murders, assaults, self-defense shootings, and accidents. For 80 percent of cases, location information for the shooting is available down to the block level. Another 18 percent of locations are exact to the street level, with the remaining 2 percent limited to the city level.
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I guarantee you, this map will correlate 100% with where feral blacks reside.
ILikeBoats
Agreed. The US has a negro problem not a gun problem.
LOL, I knew a dumbass would drag race into this.
Where's CANADA?
My hoodie;
"There have been 4 shootings within a 1-mile radius of this location in the last year, 1 fatal and 3 non-fatal. The closest shooting was 0.09 miles away."
so no worries, they can't shoot worth a shit in your neighborhood
My hood...there were two shootings within a 10 mile radius, 1 fatal 1 non-fatal. The closest shooting was 9.9 miles away.
Didn't mention the muslim nutcase chasing his neighbors with a sword, but that's probably beyond the ten mile range.
In Ottawa CANADA we have had 42 shootings occur this calendar year so far. The closest shooting to my area would be about 15 miles from moi, but I'm bulletproof no matter where I go so I ain't worried.
That settles it! moving to Detriot. and so should you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dqfEyJyxNY
Where are the gun-free zones?
All the shootings were IN gun free zones!
Imagine they had light sabers...
GEEZ! This is an anti gun site! It has at the bottom of the page MSLSD, and links to the rady center.
There is NOT 130,000 shootings a year, or 10,000 a month.
Good Lord, ZH, start vetting your "news sources" as political agenda activists.
But, but, but...there were 355 'mass shootings' this year already! Don't twist the facts to fit your narrative! /s
OK, suppose there were 355 “mass shootings”.
How many of them might be black or Hispanic drive-by’s or gang retaliation.
How about almost all.
Libs better be careful with this stat.
They are holding a hand grenade and the pin is on the floor.
Even 'Mother Jones' owned up to the fact they were spreading bullshit with this made up statistic. A day after my mother sent me 'Mother Jone's 12 Myths About Gun Ownership'. Gag. Fact is, those stats were all headline bullshit fed by 'internet users'(my other posts) asked to provide headlines of 4 or more injured or killed in a gun-related incident, even if the injured were by law enforcement reaction to the shoot. And yes, many were drive-bys and gang-related. Can't find a white conservative shooting up a neighborhood? Toss in a trash bag of un-verified shooting headlines and make up the stats! BTW, MSNBC was sitll running those stats last time I checked.
How many?
Not enough.
300,000,000 guns and 33,000 deaths equals .00011 chances of being killed by a gun and how many of those that were killed were suicides and how many were defensive shootings.....obama and his gun control agenda are losing the war and have resorted to mass shootings to get their ideas accepted
Uh, can we get a break down for the Obama administration as to how many were real and how many were staged false flag events?
that's a fair question, since i don't know i'll offer statistics. under the previous 4 presidents there was an average of 2.35 mass shootings per year, under obama there was an average of 23.14 mass shootings per year. that means that under obama there was an average of 20.79 more mass shootings per year than under the previous 4 presidents so my guess is that probably 145.53 of them could be false flags (7x20.79)...i just wanted to point out that under this president, mass shootings jumped a helluva lot while he pushes for gun bans. it is a statistical anamoly
You are a damn racist for pointing this out! How dare ye!
Barack Obola = so many false flags - so little time.
I wonder how many Gene Rosen was at and Robby Parker?
that's dicktator obola to his friends like me
maybe the world is going to shit, at least that's what they say in all the dystopian sci-fi books......
Well Obama is bring Chicago to America...more deaths for everyone! More organized theft and crooked politicans
And buried deep within the bowels of this "straight shooting" interactive map of geuine goodness from Slate & GunsRBad.org we find...
"What you’re seeing, then, is gun violence in all its other forms: homicides, attempted murders, assaults, self-defense shootings, and accidents."
Only need to highlight the one however a comment about the others, if you rape (or attempt to rape) one of my niece's mark my words, I will "attempt" to kill you by "assaulting" you, if I'm successful, you can call it a "homicide" or whateverthefuck you want.
this can all be stopped with stricter gun control laws, duh
17 shootings within half a mile of me. Not bad!!
Well done! ;-)
17 shots seventeen kills, fine marksmanship.
Damn man - those are so close that a shotgun will do just fine. I would alternate buck shot then a slug.
" I would alternate buck shot then a slug."
funny you mention that...my double barrel 12 gauge coach gun has one barrel loaded with a slug, one barrel loaded with double ott buck....it's the only way to be sure when defending the homestead
https://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/70780
In the spirit of adequately vetted Muslims. two Afgani trainees at Moody Air Force base in south Georgia have gone missing. What could go wrong ?
Air Force officials said the men were two of 23 Afghan Air Force personnel at the base learning to fly and maintain an A-29 fighter plane.
In a statement the Air Force said the Afghans were screened prior to showing up in the United States.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/2-afghan-trainees-missing-moody-air...
Funny, I couldn't find the San Bernardino shooting on there. Maybe because it was a psyop? Relative of mine works for the county there, used to work in that building. Not allowed to talk about "event". Doubtful this was a NDA, more likely a national security letter. Does that seem strange to anyone besides myself?
It's there, use 92401 and look southwest of the old Norton AFB.
This interactive map is total fucking bullshit.
For example, one can find hunting accidents, and suicides for acts of "gun violence", but one cannot find ANY references to where the "authorities" kill people.
For example, look up Spring Lake, North Carolina on the interactive map, and cross reference with this link:
http://wncn.com/2015/11/15/1-killed-in-harnett-co-officer-involved-shoot...
I also highly doubt that the 9 killed at the Waco shoot out will show up either.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-18/9-killed-18-injured-192-arreste...
And I looked, and, surprise, surprise, it does not.
The shipdits at gotdov can do no wrong.
Spoctor Din
There was one shooting in my immediate neighborhood on the map, I know who the victim was and it would be hard to find a person more deserving. He was a well-known thief and a serious mental case. The shooter was his own brother, and the circumstances were him getting caught stealing from his brother's house, after which he was warned to get the hell out and never come back or he would be shot. He came back and got shot.
Other than that there are three more that are within 10 miles or so, two fatal. One was a drunk who picked a fight at a bar with the owner. Another was a nigger shooting another nigger at a local high school, and the third was a family dispute (AKA one family member caught another family member stealing from the house to buy drugs).
If I widen the search a bit I get a nonfatal home invasion with some really weird circumstances (husband returned home at 7:45AM to find his wife shot - who the hell goes home at that time? Sounds like he was in on it); another thief, who shot at cops and was killed by them; another nonfatal of vague description that reads like a drug deal gone sour.
If I widen the search again I start seeing incidents from the city to the north, and a quick perusal of them links to news stories that inevitably have a black male perp.
This confirms my suspicion that if you're not a thief or a nigger or involved in some real shady shit, your chances of being shot are basically zero.
"How Many People Were Shot Near Your Home This Year"?
NOT ENOUGH!
Marvin Harris, one of the world's most noted anthropologists, wrote a book in 1980. This title was previously available as America Now: The Anthropology of a Changing Culture. New York: Simon & Schuster. The new title is Why Nothing Works: The Anthropology of Daily Life 1981.
In the chapter titled: Why There's Terror on the Streets, he demonstrates that American White men have violent crime rates LOWER than English in England and the Japanese in Japan. So why does America have such a high level of violent crime? Dr Harris puts it quite plainly: Blacks and Hispanics. That's the story. He also pointed out that the average gun owner is a middle-aged, middle class White guy.
Washington Post Op-Ed Cheers: Mass Immigration Will Destroy NRA, Second Amendment
The violence the Anti-white government is eager to allow.
Amanda Blackburn, a White Woman (a wife, a mother, and pregnant with second child), is Murdered in Home Invasion in Indianapolis: When We Learn Suspect is Black, the Story Will Quickly Fade Away...
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High profile NM shootings/murders; all in past 6 months.
White cop shot/killed by hispanic
White cop shot/killed by black
White journalist shot(wounded) by black but assailant killed by return fire in a hotel room
Hispanic burglar shot by white homeowner
Two hispanics in a battle of latino machismo road rage cause 4-yr old girl shot/killed
The low-profile stuff is almost too numerous to report her. We have plenty garden-variety drug/sex/anger killings every week. NM is actually in top 10 for violent crimes per 100K
BTW, the homeless guy shot by two officers in the foothills who are being prosecuted had critically slashed another homeless person a week before. Word on the street was that other homeless were glad he was dead, he was a psychopath.
Typically, it's the hispanics shooting one another or a white. Until recently more blacks have been showing up. Get tired of hearing the hispanic surnames anounced when any incidents make the news. It's senseless bullshit. The NM demo has completely turned around, whites generally peaceful, hispanics causing utter chaos. We have more transient blacks now which is disturbing.
Here's another interesting map...draw your own conclusions: http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap/
Sounds like a tool for TPTB to continue the assault on the second amendment. And several eyewitnesses to the San Berdoo shooting are stating that the shooters were 3 white males who were 'athletic looking'. Sounds about right. Off duty cops who are on anabolic steroids sounds even more likely. Or special ops - who are also taking anabolic steroids; yeah, it's a real problem amongst cops and intel ops - sent by grocery clerks to collect a bill.
There have been 214 shootings within a 100-mile radius of this location in the last year, 72fatal and 142 non-fatal. The closest shooting was 54.23 miles away.
And I thought the Sierra Nevadas were safe... Now are these shootings against humans? Or does this include drunken hillbillys shooting ketchup bottles, deer hunters?
I live in the Sierra Nevadas as well. No shootings within 20 mile radius, most of the closest ones are towards the Sacramento area. Most shootings in our rural area are meth involved, a few weed thieves. Funny, because I hear gunshots nearly every day from my armed neighbors shooting target. I am on 40 acres and my white neighbors are also on large plots. Everyone is armed. Their is a lot to lose up here what with this being one of the largest weed growing regions in the world. I'm talking billions in cash and merchandise. You know what keeps the hood rats from Sacramento away from here? The woods, the whites, and the guns. Keep packing America!
80 million gun owners in USA shot no one today.
Too funny. Sandy hoax...errr....Hook is missing.
LOL
i went to my area and of the 3 murders...FUCKING TWO OF THEM WERE BY MUSLIMS...HAHAHAHAHAH. cant fucking make this shit up. lets just keep importing these people of peace. god damn....
I am showing only one about 5 miles away, this neighborhood is quiet and full of nice old people... just the way I like it except it's too damn expensive. The neighbors watch my house (rental) like a hawk which is annoying but it keeps things safe. I had a couple smokes and some wine the other day and got a lecture from my neighbor about how nice girls shouldn't smoke (WTH) and I have a feeling I may get a fruitcake this year.
The nice old people around here will shoot your ass in a heartbeat though if try to get access to their house, which actually has happened in my neighborhood but doesn't show up on this map.
I just ran a sales call on the near west side of Chicago . Year to date in the two districts in the neighborhood I was in there have been 321 shootings with 49 of those fatal. Welcome to the Windy City.. Windy from all the bullet holes blowing through the bodies . Eerie whistling noise .
Chicago is a war zone. I just work in it at times . I live 45 minutes west of city limits.
In my lovely suburb a guy thinking he was booking a call girl via Craig's list was stabbed multiple times and robbed . Welcome to America .
I call BS.... I mean c'mon, Chicago? They have some of the strictest guns control laws in the country.....................
go look at Obama gun free home town you want to see shooting!
It's giving time to bullshit propaganda such as this which makes me think our time would be better spent in sites that aren't Zeerohedge, which is fast becoming Huffpo lite.
Wouldn't it only be fair if there was a second map showing...oh, I don't know, LIVES SAVED NEAR YOU by responsible gun owners?
When that data is compiled and put into interactive format then let me know.
Includes suicides also? what a crock.
Good chart here.....
http://www.aei.org/publication/chart-of-the-day-more-guns-less-gun-viole...
two fatal's 1 81 year old suicide one swat kill in 5m radius house. Beautiful cops killed half and death of Medicaid patient.. Truth stranger than fiction.
Why is it that the states with the strictest gun laws have the most deaths?......
I bet if the data backing that map was "people who fell off ladders", the map would look identical.
So clearly we need to outlaw ladders (or create a "no ladder" list)
Ladders don't kill.
Falls do.
We don't need to outright ban ladders, we just need more strict background checks, a mandatory 72 hour waiting period, and close the private ladder sale loophole. And a few more ladder-free zones.
No do an interactive map overlay that shows the distribution of niggers and illegal spick gangbangers and behold the result!
It would rock the libtard myopic world view as retarded and naive....
Here is a start
CIA factbook
Caucasians ~65%
hispanics ~18%
nigros ~13%
Now take a gander at FBI table 43 (published every year and unfortunately the lump in the spicks in with the Caucasians and skews the *per capita numbers*)
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/crime-in-the...
Only one within 20 miles. Some silly bastard shot himself in the leg while cleaning an unloaded gun.
Does this includes mail guns to the back of the head?
Anyone else notice the numbers are double in the Northeastern Gun-Restricted areas?
Tyler,
Why does this article claim 30,254 we're shot...and cite FBI stats, while the FBI itself says there were about 8,454 gun homicides...and doesn't say exactly how many non homicide shootings there were.
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the...
What's up?