A new project from The Trace maps five years of gun violence around the country and allows readers to isolate their own city, or even their own street.
In Nashville, there have been at least 998 shootings since 2014, claiming 302 people's lives and leaving 901 more injured. Here's what that looks like, with each red dot representing a shooting in which at least one person was killed, and yellow representing nonfatal shootings:
Shootings in Nashville from 2014 through 2018
The feature also allows you to break down the shootings into different categories — mass shootings, officer-involved shootings, accidental shootings and shootings involving children. As of 2016 — the most recent year for which the Center for Disease Control has data — Tennessee ranked 14th in the country for firearm deaths, with a rate of 17.1 deaths per 100,000 people. The national firearm death rate was 11.8


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