Deadspin is crowdsourcing a database of police shootings in America

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Iā€™m still mourning the loss of ā€˜The Gun Reportā€™ ā€¦ after a year, that closed up shop. It was amazing to see all the gun incidents that donā€™t get reported ā€¦ toddler shot by sister, etc. ā€¦ and how few actual legitimate ā€œhome invader shotā€ stories.

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I usually use this database. 1,180,000 results returned in .52 seconds.

A spreadsheet would be good, too.

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Why do they hate freedom?

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I dunno, but Iā€™m pretty sure itā€™s not for the salary!

I had a similar idea to track news stories of guns used in self defense. Both first person data, and then data backed by news and/or police reports. The National Rifleman always has a dozen stories of guns used in defense every month. I am sure there are a ton out there. Most instances donā€™t end in death, and many times shots arenā€™t even fired. Lots of those instances arenā€™t even reported thoughā€¦

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