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15 lut 2024 · In the wake of Kansas City's deadly shooting that erupted at the end of the Chiefs' Super Bowl parade, the record-breaking homicide rate in Missouri's largest city and the state's gun laws has faced renewed attention.
16 lut 2024 · President Joe Biden said in a statement Wednesday. The lax gun laws in Missouri, where at least 155 mass shootings have happened since 2013, have created challenges for law enforcement and...
31 paź 2021 · The repeal of permit to purchase led to at least a 25%, and as much as a 47%, increase in firearms homicides and a 23.5% increase in firearms suicides in Missouri in the years since it passed, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research.
29 sty 2024 · Missouri has some of the weakest gun laws in the country, resulting in the eighth-highest rate of gun violence in the U.S. In an average year, 1,351 people die by guns and 2,312 are wounded. Gun violence costs Missouri $17.6 billion each year, of which $455.3 million is paid by taxpayers.
More than 1,200 Missourians died by gun violence in 2019, an average of more than three people every day. Suicides were 54% of the gun deaths and homicides were 43%.
Each day, an average of 132 people died from gun violence—one death every 11 minutes. The overall gun death rate declined 2.7% between 2021 and 2022, resulting in 626 fewer deaths. The gun homicide rate decreased 7.5% in 2022, with 1,307 fewer gun homicides compared to 2021.
2 lis 2022 · Until recently, Missouri’s biggest city, St. Louis, held the grim title of murder capital of the US and still has the second highest murder rate in the country. Zacheriah Davis’s daughter...
