While we have clear data on murders from gun violence, no one seems to know how many Americans are shot – and survive – every year. In fact, the government's own numbers seem to conflict on the matter. How can this be? And why has no one tried to resolve the difference? Lois Beckett explains that doctors and researchers have been pushing for clear numbers on gun injuries since 1989. ?But what's happened over that time is the politics of gun research, the politics of guns in America, are so divided and so fierce that even the effort to count the number of people injured by guns is incredibly political,? she says.
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