Gun deaths

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Benjamin Soltoff

Published

March 6, 2024

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title: "Gun deaths"
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Gun deaths by age

We have data about 100798 individuals killed by guns. Only 15687 are older than 65. The distribution of the remainder is shown below:

```{r}
#| label: youth-dist
ggplot(data = youth, mapping = aes(x = age)) + 
  geom_freqpoly(binwidth = 1)
```

There appear to be two modal values in this distribution. The peak number of gun death victims by age is around 22 years old. There is a smaller, but noticable, peak around age 50.

Gun deaths by race

```{r}
#| label: race-dist
youth |>
  mutate(race = fct_infreq(race) |> fct_rev()) |>
  ggplot(mapping = aes(y = race)) +
  geom_bar() +
  labs(y = "Victim race")
```

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