The Other Gun Deaths
A person adjusts flowers ahead of the opening of the Gun Violence Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on June 7, 2022. Each vase of flowers in the memorial, set up by the Gabby Giffords Foundation, represents one of the 45,222 Americans who died from gun violence in 2020. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A person adjusts flowers ahead of the opening of the Gun Violence Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on June 7, 2022. Each vase of flowers in the memorial, set up by the Gabby Giffords Foundation, represents one of the 45,222 Americans who died from gun violence in 2020.
Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty ImagesMass shooting deaths represent just a fraction of people killed by gun violence in America, and more than half of all gun deaths are suicides.
The numbers are staggering: in 2020, the most recent year with available data, 45,000 people in America were killed by guns. This episode, a few of the people touched by that violence share their stories.
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This episode was produced by Connor Donevan and edited by Courtney Dorning and Bridget Kelley. Our executive producer is Sami Yenigun.