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"Update, June 19, 2013: As time goes on, our count gets further and further away from the likely actual number of gun deaths in America—because roughly 60 percent of deaths by gun are due to suicides, which are very rarely reported. When discussing this issue, please note that our number is by design not accurate and represents only the number of gun deaths that the media can find out about contemporaneously. Part of the purpose of this interactive is to point out how difficult it is to get accurate real-time numbers on this issue.
Using the most recent CDC estimates for yearly deaths by guns in the United States, it is likely that as of today, 6/27/2013, roughly 16,387 people have died from guns in the United States since the Newtown shootings. Compare that number to the number of deaths reported in the news in our interactive below (5,487, currently), and you can see how undertold the story of gun violence in America actually is."
"Update, June 19, 2013: As time goes on, our count gets further and further away from the likely actual number of gun deaths in America—because roughly 60 percent of deaths by gun are due to suicides, which are very rarely reported. When discussing this issue, please note that our number is by design not accurate and represents only the number of gun deaths that the media can find out about contemporaneously. Part of the purpose of this interactive is to point out how difficult it is to get accurate real-time numbers on this issue.
Using the most recent CDC estimates for yearly deaths by guns in the United States, it is likely that as of today, 6/27/2013, roughly 16,387 people have died from guns in the United States since the Newtown shootings. Compare that number to the number of deaths reported in the news in our interactive below (5,487, currently), and you can see how undertold the story of gun violence in America actually is."
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