{"id":84,"date":"2023-03-18T16:25:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T16:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.perceptionsgvp.org\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2023-03-18T16:25:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T16:25:51","slug":"facts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.perceptionsgvp.org\/gun-violence-in-america\/facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts About Gun Violence in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Over 100,000 people are shot every year, including nearly 40,000 people killed in 2017.\u00a0 It is estimated that 45,000 Americans have been paralyzed by guns.<\/li>\n<li>Sixty percent of all gun deaths in the US are suicides.<\/li>\n<li>Americans are ten times more likely to be killed by guns than people in other developed countries. Compared to 22 other high-income nations, the United States&#8217; gun-related murder rate is 25 times higher.<\/li>\n<li>Black children are 10 times more likely than white children to die from guns.<\/li>\n<li>More than 4 million American children live in homes with unsecured firearms.<\/li>\n<li>States and localities are leading the fight to reduce gun violence and have passed dozens of sensible gun laws since the 2016 Parkland shooting.<\/li>\n<li>The annual direct and indirect cost of gun violence in the US is estimated at $175-229 billion.<\/li>\n<li>There are more guns than people in the U.S.<\/li>\n<li>Gun ownership is constitutionally protected by the Second Amendment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 100,000 people are shot every year, including nearly 40,000 people killed in 2017.\u00a0 It is estimated that 45,000 Americans have been paralyzed by guns. Sixty percent of all gun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85,"parent":81,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptionsgvp.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptionsgvp.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptionsgvp.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptionsgvp.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptionsgvp.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptionsgvp.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptionsgvp.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions\/86"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptionsgvp.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptionsgvp.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptionsgvp.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}