A Year of Gun Deaths

This is a restoration of Slate's Gun Deaths project, which tracked, aggregated, and visualized gun deaths, starting with the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and continuing through the following year. For more than a year, a team of Slate editors and volunteers from our community scoured thousands of news articles and governmental public sources to compile the data shown below. Eventually, this effort evolved into an independent non-profit, the Gun Violence Archive, which continues to collect information about gun violence to this day.

As Slate's website has changed, many old interactive projects became broken, and fixing them all is infeasible. I've preserved this one because I think the information is important. Note that many links to source articles are broken, or these articles now sit behind paywalls.

— Chris Kirk, former Interactives Editor of Slate.com

Click a marker below to filter incidents by that location. Shows only the 1,000 locations with the most deaths.

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Methodology

Each person under 13 years of age is designated "child"; from 13 to 17: "teen"; 18 and older: "adult."

The same icons used to represent males is also used to represent individuals of unknown gender. The same icons used to represent adults is also used to represent people of unknown age group.

The yellow and blue backgrounds represent alternating days.

The information is collected by volunteers from news reports about the deaths. The Slate interactives team and these volunteers continually manage and revise the data.

The data are not comprehensive because not all gun-related deaths are reported by the news media. For example, suicides often go unreported.