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Nov 26, 2017 | Featured

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Support us when you shop on Cyber Monday. Go to smile.amazon.com/ch/80-0917179 and Amazon donates to Crime Prevention Research Center.

Your help is greatly appreciated.  You can learn more about the CPRC here and also donate directly here.

Thank you very much!

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New Research: The worst 2% of U.S. counties produce an even larger share of firearm murders than of murders overall. Those counties account for 53% of all murders but 57% of firearm murders. U.S. murders are concentrated far more heavily than Canada’s and Australia’s.

New Research: The worst 2% of U.S. counties produce an even larger share of firearm murders than of murders overall. Those counties account for 53% of all murders but 57% of firearm murders. U.S. murders are concentrated far more heavily than Canada’s and Australia’s.

by | Oct 6, 2026 |

We have previously examined how heavily murders concentrate in the United States, but this is our first analysis of firearm homicide concentration. The first two graphs show that the worst 2% to 5% of counties account for a share of firearm murders about four...