In lieu of game coverage and in collaboration with @Yankees, we will use our channels to offer facts about the impacts of gun violence.
The devastating events that took place in Uvalde, Buffalo and countless other communities across our nation are tragedies that are intolerable.— Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) May 26, 2022
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Every day, more than 110 Americans are killed with guns, and more than 200 are shot and injured.— Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) May 26, 2022
58 percent of American adults or someone they care for have experienced gun violence.— Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) May 26, 2022
Every three hours, a young Black man dies by gun homicide.— Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) May 26, 2022
Each year, more than 4,100 Latinx people die from gun violence in the U.S. and 13,300 are shot and wounded.— Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) May 26, 2022
About 4.5 million women in the US today report having been threatened with a gun by an intimate partner.— Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) May 27, 2022
Access to a gun triples the risk of death by suicide.— Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) May 27, 2022
When an assault weapon is used in a mass shooting, it results in six times as many people shot than when other guns are used.— Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) May 27, 2022
