An Analysis of Gun Violence in the U.S.

Gun violence remains a widespread issue across the U.S. Our group aims to conduct an analysis of data from the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit which verifies and compiles data for public access, in order to find patterns among these incidents and identify important risk factors.

The database we are using has over 260,000 records of incidents in the U.S. ranging from January 2013 to March 2018. The sheer number of records across just 5 years is both alarming and pervasive, indicating the need for some type of action to provoke change.

Combined with extensive literature review and research, we hope our analysis of this historical data and predictions of future trends will provide insight into the driving factors behind gun violence and potential steps that can be taken to challenge its prevalence in our society.

Although we understand that this is a deep systemic issue that this project alone cannot wholly tackle, our hope is that it can play a role in taking another step forward in the fight to keep our society safer from unnecessary gun violence.

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