The Aug. 4 mass shooting in Dayton’s Oregon District, the deadliest in modern Ohio history, has brought the debate about Ohio’s gun laws back to the forefront.
A gunman killed nine people in the shooting including Megan Betts, Lois L. Oglesby, Saeed Saleh, Derrick R.Fudge, Logan Turner, Nicholas P. Cumer, Thomas J. McNichols, Beatrice N. Warren-Curtis, and Monica E. Brickhouse.
Here’s a look at Ohio’s firearm deaths by the numbers:
16,374 people died by gun from 2007 to 2019
60 percent of gun deaths are suicides
39.4 percent increase in firearms fatalities in 2018 over 2007
Source – Ohio Department of Health
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