{"id":7452,"date":"2017-10-31T13:28:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T02:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=7452"},"modified":"2017-10-31T13:28:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T02:28:05","slug":"monday-gun-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=7452","title":{"rendered":"Monday – gun day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I want to know what guns were used in the first 59 killings of 2017, but I’m not sure if that information is going to be available. I checked the incident material<\/a> on the Gun Violence Archive source list<\/a> that gives the name and location of the victims, as well as links to police and new reports for each killing. Quonterio Davis<\/a>, a Jefferson, Missouri resident, is the first person on my narrowed-down January 1, 2017 list (from last week’s post<\/a>). The suspected killer is also named, but the weapon he used was not. A bit more digging found that Davis was shot with what a witness called a “chrome semi-automatic pistol”<\/a>. I have not found a more detailed description, and I think that might involve having to find court documents.<\/p>\n

In this research I think I’m likely to find that pretty common –\u00a0 getting knowledge of the weapon or the rounds is maybe a bit more intel than people want to know. Then again, I may yet be surprised.<\/p>\n

One thing that did not surprise was that the crime involved a hand gun. Wikipedia: “According to the FBI<\/a>, in 2012, there were 8,897 total firearm-related homicides in the US, with 6,404 of those attributed to handguns.” Contributor Aude has even created a chart to visualise this:<\/p>\n

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By Aude – Self-published work by Aude, CC BY-SA 2.5, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=1367669<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An initial attempt at trying to find out the most popular handgun in the U.S. (at this stage, it looks like it’ll be a pistol,) to use as a proxy for a series of ‘unidentifiable pistol’ works, indicates that it could be another entire research project. Luckily, I found another great data source this week to add to the heavy-hitting Gun Archive. It’s called Statista: The Statistics Portal has Firearms in the U.S. – statistics and facts.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trying to find out details of the gun that killed Quonterio Davis, a Jefferson, Missouri resident, in Jan 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns","category-jewellery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7452"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7458,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7452\/revisions\/7458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}