Looks like they lump everything together, police shootings, justified homicides, suicides, etc.
Wonder what it looks like with those pulled out?
...and accidents.
How about “children” aged 18 to 26?
It's ridiculous:
So, the South Side of Chicago could be an ongoing war zone (and it is) with perhaps even a dozen people being murdered every weekend (and they are), but since the entire state of Illinois has 13 million people living there the percentage of firearm homicide fatalities per 100,000 people would be lower than a small picturesque mountain village in Austria of 1,000 residents if only one person there is murdered by a firearm.
Ergo, VPC statistics would show your chance of being a victim of a firearms-related fatality in Chicago is 8.1:100,000 yet in the tiny Austrian hamlet of Ischgl your chances rise to an alarming 1:1,000.
Only a god-blessed idiot from the Violence Policy Center would presume their own statistics show that you can safely whirl through the South Side of Chicago on a Saturday night singing the title track from Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound Of Music yet you're at eighty times greater risk of death by firearm in the actual location where Julie Andrews performed the opening scene for the movie The Sound Of Music.
This is how you lie with statistics. They correctly presume that Americans are too dumb to check facts and discern what statistics mean.
If they were being honest, the Violence Policy Center would just show a heat map of firearms deaths in the United States by locality. Of course, they won't do that because everyone would take one look and say "Yep, I'm hardly surprised" and go on about their day without a second thought about the mission of the VPC's anti-gun activism.
