The Disturbing Trend Behind America’s Soaring Gun Deaths
More Americans were killed by guns in 2017 than ever before. The majority of those deaths were suicides.
In 2015 and 2016, Americans faced an alarming statistic: After a couple of decades of overall decline, major data centers reported a sharp uptick of crime in big cities. Donald Trump spoke with dystopian foreboding in his 2016 inaugural address about the “American carnage” wreaking havoc in the country’s metropolises; earlier, at one campaign event, he asserted that “places like Afghanistan” were safer than American cities, where “you get shot walking down the street.”
In the years since, research has painted a much different picture—one that’s uplifting in some ways and
