Each circle represents one mass shooting instance and its size is proportional to the amount of victims. You can hover over the red circles for a more detailed description.
After selecting the year, you can click on state names to generate a bar graph of firearm background checks of the given year. Each white circle represents the number of mass shooting occurences that month.
Welcome to Nothing Political. This project visualizes annual mass shooting instances vs gun sales across United State from 2014 to early 2018. It is built wth JavaScript, D3.js and Google geocode API. Datasets are obtained from three resources:
Firearm stores are required to record all of their gun sales but Federal law prohibits the federal government from collecting firearm sales records in a central respository. For the purpose of this project, the closest estimate is made with firearm background checks. ×