As of mid-February, the Gun Violence Archive had counted 81 mass shootings in the United States in 2023. That’s an average of more than one per day, including the shooting that killed three Michigan State University students and badly wounded five others on Feb. 13.
The New York Times wants to hear how the threat of gun violence has affected your life — whether you’ve experienced gun violence directly or only through news stories.
Do you have fears about gun violence? If so, what are they? Has the threat of gun violence affected your mental health, quality of life or daily behavior? If so, how? And how do you cope?
Gun violence disproportionately affects Black communities. And according to one study, Asians, Pacific Islanders and native Hawaiians living in California were more worried about becoming victims of gun violence than other racial or ethnic groups — even before the January mass shootings in Half Moon Bay and Monterey Park. We are eager to hear from Americans in these and other communities.
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