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New public database reveals striking differences in how guns are regulated from state to state

  • Written by Michael Siegel, Professor of Community Health Sciences, Boston University
imageAnti-gun protestors rally in Washington, D.C. in July 2016.Patsy Lynch/MediaPunch/IPX

From 2014 to 2015, the United States experienced its largest annual increase in firearm deaths over the past 35 years, a 7.8 percent upturn in a single year. In 45 of the 50 states the rate of overall deaths from firearms increased and the firearm homicide rate...

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