i would call it a sobering report, but it’s worse than that. From the Commonwealth Fund via the Guardian: Comparing Deaths from Gun Violence in the U.S. with Other Countries

The interesting bit is some US states have higher gun death rates than countries at war or with significant civil unrest.

For instance, Mississippi’s rate of firearm-related violence (28.5 per 100,000 people) was nearly double that of Haiti (15.1 per 100,000) in 2021, when mercenaries assassinated the country’s president, unleashing a fresh round of gang warfare which pushed the country into a state of civil war.

Some US states have firearm death rates comparable to countries in conflict, report says