The Face of Gun Violence
More Than Just Numbers
The Face of Gun Violence in New Mexico
is a project to document the victims that have been forgotten and give them a voice.
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1,938,329
About one every 12 minutes.
0 so far today.
Each dot is one death, in the hour it is estimated to fall. The gold dot fills as the next one approaches.
An estimate, not a live count. CDC death records are final through
2024; the time since is projected at that year's daily average.
Recorded.
1,938,329 deaths from 1968 through
2024, taken from death certificates compiled by the CDC's
National Center for Health Statistics. The count covers every firearm death: suicides, homicides,
unintentional shootings, legal-intervention deaths, and deaths of undetermined intent.
Projected.
The CDC publishes final figures more than a year after the fact, so each day since
January 1, 2025 is counted at
121.4 deaths, the daily average for
2024. The number above is recorded plus projected, and is
revised when a new year of data is finalized.
Caveat.
For 1968 to 1978, the CDC's suicide and homicide categories combine firearms with explosives.
Source: CDC WONDER mortality data.
Firearm deaths in the United States since January 1, 1968
Today, hour by hour
Real-time estimate
How this number is calculated
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And Justice for All Our Children
A Memorial to our Children Who Have Been Gunned Down
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Here are a few of the Forgotten
Suicide Prevention
1. 65 people kill themselves with a gun every day.
2. A gun in the home increases the risk of suicide.
3. In 2021, 54% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. were suicides.
The law is named after Bennie Hargrove,
a 13-year-old who was shot and killed during lunch at Washington Middle School in August 2021 by a fellow student who took his parent's handgun and brought it to school.
The law makes it a crime to negligently store a firearm and allow a child to misuse the weapon.
We started this project as a result of several conversations about gun violence and the frustration we had with the lack of progress on the issue. We felt the problem of gun violence and it's solutions needed to include more than just statistics.
There are lives behind the violence - there are consequences that spread beyond a single death that effect us all. We are all victims to some extent, and our hope is these stories can help the public to not only see, but feel what is happening all around us. Then, maybe some meaningful action might be taken.
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