It's the guns. It's always the guns. U.S. gun violence halfway through 2023, as of #July1st: •9,380 gun deaths •18,335 gun injuries •335 mass shootings •471 children shot •2,789 teenagers shot •569 incidents of defensive gun use •799 unintentional shootin~12,012 suicides [CDC estimate https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/