• Home
  • Subscribe!
  • About Us / FAQ
  • Staff
  • Columns
  • Awards
  • Terms of Use
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Contact
  • OB Rag
  • Donate

San Diego Free Press

Grassroots News & Progressive Views

What’s the Deadliest Day of the Week in Your State for Gun Violence?

December 18, 2014 by Source

Share this:

  • Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • More
  • Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn
  • Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
  • Print (Opens in new window) Print
  • Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
  • Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp

By Janet Allon / AlterNet

days of weekYou might think Monday would be the most likely day when miserable, unhinged people are most likely to go on a murderous gun rampage. But you’d be wrong.

In 20 states, including California, Sunday is the deadliest day for gun violence. And in several Bible Belt states, Saturday is the worst. All in all, weekends, including Friday, are the times when Americans are most likely to get shot in 29 of the 50 states.

This according to a recent  story in Vocativ, which launched the investigation in response to model Chrissy Teigen’s tweet after the Canadian parliament shooting that active shootings were a “Wednesday” phenomenon.

“Did she pick Wednesday based on her encyclopedic knowledge of gun crime or just pull it from thin air?” Vocativ writers M. L. Estel and EJ Fox wondered. “We’ll probably never know.”

Drawing on data from the Gun Violence Archive from July through November 2014 on (so just four months) Vocativ produced this map:

Map of deadliest gun violence day of week by state

Click to enlarge

Sadly, this window was enough time for 2,200 gun deaths to occur, as well as another 7,800 shootings that were not fatal. Far too many, any day of the week.

  • Bio
  • Latest Posts
Source

Source

Source

Latest posts by Source (see all)

  • And Then They Came for the Vietnamese… - December 13, 2018
  • Amazon’s Disturbing Plan to Add Face Surveillance to Your Front Door - December 13, 2018
  • 140+ Arrested as Youth-Led Protests Demand Green New Deal on Capitol Hill - December 11, 2018

Like this:

Like Loading…

Related

Filed Under: Gun Control, Health

« Why Do Democrats Keep Trying to Ban Guns That Look Scary, Not the Guns That Kill the Most People?
US Funds Mexico’s War on Drugs »
San Diego Free Press Has Suspended Publication as of Dec. 14, 2018

Let it be known that Frank Gormlie, Patty Jones, Doug Porter, Annie Lane, Brent Beltrán, Anna Daniels, and Rich Kacmar did something necessary and beautiful together for 6 1/2 years. Together, we advanced the cause of journalism by advancing the cause of justice. It has been a helluva ride. "Sometimes a great notion..." (Click here for more details)

#ResistanceSD logo; NASA photo from space of US at night

Click for the #ResistanceSD archives

Make a Non-Tax-Deductible Donation

donate-button

A Twitter List by SDFreePressorg

KNSJ 89.1 FM
Community independent radio of the people, by the people, for the people

"Play" buttonClick here to listen to KNSJ live online

At the OB Rag: OB Rag

City Council Votes for Some Restrictions on SB-79 — Next Move: SANDAG

State Farm vs. State of California

Balboa Park Operating Funds: What a Tangled Web

OB Band Slightly Stoopid Wins ‘Song of the Year’ at Annual San Diego Music Awards

Non-Profit Seeks to Become Conservancy for Mission Bay Park in Wake of Devastating City Budget

  • Sitemap
  • Contact
  • About Us
  • Terms of Use

©2010-2017 SanDiegoFreePress.org

Code is Poetry

%d