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Gun control: California, Nevada and Washington tighten firearms regulations

  • Written by Bindu Kalesan, Director, Evans Center for Translational Epidemiology and Comparative Effectiveness Research, Boston University
imageDepartment of Elections workers sort through mailed in ballots at City Hall in San Francisco, on Nov. 8, 2016. AP Photo/Jeff Chiu

About 1.5 million people have been shot by a gun, 468,758 fatally, in the United States over the past 15 years. The majority, nearly two-thirds of gun deaths, are suicides; more than a third are gunshots due to assault.

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