VOX
America is an exceptional country when it comes to guns. It's one of the few countries in which the right to bear arms is constitutionally protected, and presidential candidates in other nations don't cook bacon with guns. But America's relationship with guns is unique in another crucial way: Among developed nations, the US is far and away the most violent — in large part due to the easy access many Americans have to firearms. These charts and maps show what that violence looks like compared with the rest of the world, why it happens, and why it's such a tough problem to fix.
This is an article with a good variety of useful graphs and maps and I figured people here should see it, thus my posting it.
There is quite a bit covered and little to excerpt so I am posting the titles of subsections which seem to be the most interesting.
There have been at least 864 mass shootings since Sandy Hook
That comes with a handy interactive map. You'll want to see that.
States with tighter gun control laws have fewer gun-related deaths
When economist Richard Florida took a look at gun deaths and other social indicators, he found that higher populations, more stress, more immigrants, and more mental illness didn't correlate with more gun deaths. But he did find one telling correlation: States with tighter gun control laws have fewer gun-related deaths.
I have no idea how to appropriately manage fair use of news articles, particularly information of this importance so - boo!: go read the entire Vox article, bookmark it.
It's all good, useful information.