Introduction:
Burden of Gun Violence The burden of gun violence in the United States vastly outpaces that in comparable countries: • Eighty percent of all firearm deaths in about two dozen populous, high-income countries — Australia, France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and 18 others — occur in the U.S., and 87 percent of all children ages 0-14 killed by firearms in this group of nations are U.S. children killed in the United States.