For Release: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 Latest Edition of Annual Violence Policy Center Analysis Also Ranks States by Their Overall Gun Death Rates Washington, DC — Gun deaths in the U.S. have jumped 17 percent since the 2008 District of…
For Release: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 Latest Edition of Annual Violence Policy Center Analysis Also Ranks States by Their Overall Gun Death Rates Washington, DC — Gun deaths in the U.S. have jumped 17 percent since the 2008 District of…
For Release: Thursday, June 26, 2008 Supreme Court Ruling Overturning DC Handgun Ban Should Allow Ban on Semiautomatic Handguns to Stand Washington, DC–Following today’s 5-4 Supreme Court opinion authored by 2007 Sport Shooting Ambassador Award winner Antonin Scalia (see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-sugarmann/sport-shooting-ambassador_b_109367.html for…
For stories from 2018 to the present, please see https://vpc.org/vpc-in-the-news/ “Domestic violence is far too prevalent in Lancaster County, and must be prevented,” Lancaster Online, December 22, 2017 “A portrait of Nina,” The Mountaineer, December 18, 2017 “What will it…
For Release: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 Washington, DC – A new Violence Policy Center (VPC) report released today offers an overview of lethal gun violence in the Great Lakes states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. The study,…
State Firearm Death Rate 2009 Firearm Death Rate 2016 Firearm Death Rate Percent Change, 2009 to 2016 Alabama 17.63 21.51 22.0% Alaska 14.89 23.86 60.2% Arizona 12.98 15.78 21.6% Arkansas 16.09 18.10 12.5% California 8.37 8.11 -3.1% Colorado 11.60 14.66…
Rank State Rate 1 Alaska 23.86 2 Alabama 21.51 3 Louisiana 21.08 4 Mississippi 19.64 5 Oklahoma 19.52 6 Missouri 18.78 7 Montana 18.61 8 New Mexico 18.40 9 West Virginia 18.13 10 Arkansas 18.10 11 South Carolina 17.96…
For Release: Monday, March 17, 2008 District’s Law Necessary to Protect DC Residents, First Responders Violence Policy Center Warns Washington, DC—Just two days after a new Washington Post national poll found that 59 percent of the American public supports restrictions identical to…
For Release: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 Washington, DC—The U.S. House of Representatives is expected today to consider legislation that will govern how the District of Columbia implements its gun laws. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) has proposed legislation (H.R. 6842) that…
For Release: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 Washington, DC—The U.S. House of Representatives today passed a National Rifle Association-backed bill sponsored by Representative Travis Childers (D-MS) that would virtually wipe out any regulation of guns by the District of Columbia, endangering citizens,…