Do gun control provisions change after mass shootings?

Year: 1991

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The average number of mass shootings per year since 1991 is 7. The public has been polarized on how to combat this issue. Here we see how mass shootings affect gun control and vice versa at a state level. Each circle represents a mass shooting and the radius is how many victims there were. States are darkened based on how many gun control provisions they have. The darker states have more provisions and the lighter states have fewer provisions. Filter the provisions by category to see how strict each state is in each category of gun provisions.


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1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2017 2016 2015 2014 3 200 400 585 Latitude Total Gun Laws in U.S. 1400 0 20 60 Total Victims