Nearly 1 in 5 respondents, including 34% of Black adults, 18% of Hispanic adults and 17% of white adults, said a family member had been killed by a gun.
The survey “confirms that firearm-related injuries are ubiquitous,” said Dr. Selwyn Rogers, a surgeon and founding director of the UChicago Medicine trauma center. “For every person killed, there are two or three people harmed. These are people who have had fractures, who may have been paralyzed or disabled.”Beyond causing physical injuries, gun violence has left many Americans living with trauma and fear, Rogers said.
Women also reported high rates of concern about firearm violence, with 58% saying gun-related crimes are a constant threat or major concern, compared with 43% of men. More than half of intimate partner homicides are About 1 in 4 parents of children under 18 say they worry daily or almost daily about gun violence, the KFF survey found, and 84% of adults report having taken at least one precaution to reduce their family’s risk from gun violence.
According to the KFF survey, 29% of adults have purchased a gun at some point to protect themselves or their families, with 44% of parents of children under 18 keeping a gun in the home. Yet 78% of parents in gun-owning households fail to , such as locking guns and ammunition, storing guns unloaded and storing guns and ammunition separately, practices that have been shown to reduce the risk of thefts, accidents and suicides.
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