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Gun Violence Archive (GVA) is an American nonprofit group with accompanying website and social media delivery platforms which catalogs every incident of gun violence in the United States. (It was founded by Michael Klein and Mark Bryant. Klein is the founder of Sunlight Foundation, and Bryant is a retired systems analyst.)[1]

Website

GVA maintains a database of known shootings in the United States, coming from law enforcement, media and government sources from all 50 states.[2][3]

GVA's statistics, mapping, methodology and definitions are found on the organisation's website.

The website records police shooting injuries and deaths, mass shootings, individual gun related incidents, suicides, injuries, teen, child and adult related injuries and deaths.

History

GVA was established in 2013 and began in 2014 and is ongoing. It provides gun violence data and statistics. Gaps in both CIA and FBI data, as well as their lagging distribution, showed a need for near real-time data collection. (Ongoing national [US] gun debate).

GVA has a staff of professionals, with specialities from MSLS/MIS-degreed researchers and data archivists to systems architects and software engineers.[4][5]

Data Collection

The Website has recorded over 12000 gun violence related deaths a year, over 21000 suicides, 22000 injuries ever since 2014 and records have been steadily increasing over the years. These records include incremental data included in the website.

See also

References

  1. ^ Cheves, John (2017-07-30). "Website counts the bodies as they fall to gunfire across America". Lexington Herald-Leader. Retrieved 2017-07-31.
  2. ^ "Try to scroll through this graphic and you'll understand America's gun problem". Vox.com. Retrieved 2017-07-31.
  3. ^ "Incidents in 2017". www.gunviolencearchive.org. Retrieved 2017-07-31.
  4. ^ Drange, Matt (2016-04-23). "The Kentucky gun owner who developed his own count of gun violence in the US". The Guardian. Retrieved 2017-07-31.
  5. ^ Kirk, Chris; Yablon, Alex (2015-12-31). "How Many People Have Been Shot in Your Neighborhood This Year?". Slate. Retrieved 2017-07-31.
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