Abstract
Statement of PurposeFirearm-related death rates and years of potential life lost (YPLL) vary widely between population subgroups and states. However, changes or inflections in temporal trends within subgroups and states...
Highlights
Statement of Purpose Rural counties in the United States have higher firearm suicide rates and opioid overdoses than urban counties
National firearm mortality rates were 10.3 and 11.8 per 100,000 in 1999 and 2016, with two distinct segments; a plateau until 2014 followed by an increase of annual percentage change (APC)=7.2%
years of potential life lost (YPLL) rates were from 304.7 and 338.2 in 1999 and 2016 with a steady APC increase in%YPLL of 0.65% from 1999 to an inflection point in 2014, followed by a larger APC in %YPLL of 5.1%
Summary
We performed a cross-sectional study between 01/01/ 2013–12/31/2018 using school-shooting data from Everytown database (K-12 and colleges/Universities) and K12 (only K-12). Poverty rate, black population, and population size was obtained from American Community Survey, homicide rate from Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and intent of shooting and number of fatal victims were from the school shooting databases. Google trends for each day for ‘school’ and ‘shooting’ was obtained for six years and standardized using year weights created as total proportion of total hits in months per total hits during six years. Results There were 405 and 295 school shooting incidents in Everytown and K12 datasets respectively. From 2013 to 2018, Inj Prev 2020;26(Suppl 1):A1–A56
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