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As gun violence increases, active shooter defense industry booms
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Bad headline. No source for the claim that gun violence is increasing. Not even mentioned in the body of the story.
https://archive.ph/Do1ro
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/
Deaths have fallen from 2021 to 2022 and 2022 to 2023. They rose in the past, but do not continue to rise.
https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/
archive.ph/69wqY
From 2021 to 2022 looks like a wash to me: around 700 fewer homicides but 700 more suicides (the number you cropped out of the screenshot). And the numbers for 2023 aren't final yet.
A wash is not an increase.
2021: homicide+accident 21068 suicide 26328 total 47396 population estimate from census.gov: https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/time-series/demo/popest/2020s-national-total.html#v2023 332603952
2022: homicide+accident 20390 suicides 27038 total 47428 population estimate from census.gov 334025515
firearm homicides + firearm suicides / population * 100000 = rate per 100,000 2021: 14.24998101 2022: 14.19891531