The Trump administration cut more than half of all federal funding for gun violence prevention programs in the US this April, according to official data analyzed by Reuters and published July 29.
By cutting US$158 million in grants, cities like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore will no longer have the ability to sustain a wide range of programs aiming to prevent shootings, such as training outreach teams to de-escalate and mediate conflict, preparing social workers to connect people to services and employment, and funding hospital-based programs for gun violence victims.
These cuts are part of a broader rollback that terminated 365 grants valued at $811 million in community violence intervention grants, impacting a range of public safety and victim services programs.
Since 2020, gun violence has been the leading cause of death among children and teenagers living in the US, ahead of car accidents and illnesses like cancer. In 2024 alone, 5,151 children and teenagers were shot, and 1,403 of them died. These alarming figures put the US in a category all of its own. No other comparable countries have gun violence as a leading cause of death for children—in fact, it doesn't even make the top four list elsewhere.
In this gallery, we looked at statistics published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the FBI, among other organizations, to try and answer some pertinent questions about gun deaths in America. Click on and take a look at the numbers.