{"id":41304,"date":"2018-01-01T23:58:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T18:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41304"},"modified":"2018-01-02T00:00:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T19:00:04","slug":"data-shows-15488-shot-dead-in-us-in-2017-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41304","title":{"rendered":"Data shows 15,488 shot dead in US in 2017 alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, Jan. 1 (TNS):<\/strong> 15,488 people were shot dead across the United States in 2017 alone, according to the latest data published Monday by tracking website Gun Violence Archive.<\/p>\n<p>The country witnessed a total of 61,089 shooting incidents, which took 15,488 lives while left 31,058 wounded in the past year, the data shows.<\/p>\n<p>Among the dead and injured, 727 were children under 11 years old and more than 3,200 were teens aged from 12 to 17.<\/p>\n<p>One of the America&#8217;s deadliest shooting incidents occurred in Las Vegas on Oct. 1. At least 58 people were killed and hundreds wounded after a gunman opened fire at a country music festival on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41307\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/US-firing.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/US-firing.png 465w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/US-firing-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/US-firing-324x160.png 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>About 22,000 annual suicides related to firearms are not included in the data, said the website, which collects and validates gun violence and crime incidents from 2,500 sources daily.<\/p>\n<p>The data reflect a subset of all information collected and will not add to 100 percent of gun-related incidents, according to the website.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, Jan. 1 (TNS): 15,488 people were shot dead across the United States in 2017 alone, according to the latest data published Monday by tracking website Gun Violence Archive. The country witnessed a total of 61,089 shooting incidents, which took 15,488 lives while left 31,058 wounded in the past year, the data shows. Among the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,303],"tags":[932,304],"class_list":["post-41304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-washington","tag-international","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41308,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41304\/revisions\/41308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}