You have to be a little crazy to take gun violence analysis to the extremes we do. This article, an audit of many things we can derive from the FBI’s database of 13,916,425 crime victims in 2023, is just the latest example of our data derangement. Take-aways 87% of gun crimes result in no or only minor injuries. Deaths occur in 10% and serious injuries in 3%. Only 40% of gun crime offenders are arrested in the same year. Arrest rates fall sharply in high-population counties. Wholesale Data We have a project at Gun Facts that we jokingly named “Data Whore” while conceptualizing it. Unfortunately, the name stuck, and it appears in too many places within our internal systems to change now. The goal was to establish a database system (PostgreSQL, for the geeks out there) to load in long-term data and thus be able to correctly extract details at … Continue reading →