Reduce nonfatal firearm-related injuries. 26 nonfatal firearm-related injuries per 100,000 population in 1996. Better than the best. Data have not been analyzed. Data are not collected.
Data are statistically unreliable.
The United States has the highest rates of lethal childhood violence than every other industrialized country. The increase in the total homicide rate from 1979 through 1993 resulted solely from increases in firearms homicides. For each of the 35,957 persons killed by a gunshot wound in the United States in 1995, approximately 3 more received nonfatal wounds.