We continue to get complaints that our anecdotal approach overstates gun violence in comparison to other forms of death and injury, such as, you know, slipping in the bathtub. But yesterday, ProPublica published an interview with Dr. Mark Rosenberg, who led the Centers for Disease Control’s gun violence research until 1996, when Congress cut its funding after intense NRA lobbying. Before the funding was cut, Dr. Rosenberg said, the CDC’s research showed that “not only did having a firearm in your home not protect you, but it hugely increased the risk that someone in your family would die from a firearm homicide” by almost 300 percent. Having a gun in the home also raised the risk five-fold that someone in your household would commit suicide.

In January, President Obama issued an executive order rescinding the ban on CDC gun research, though even his executive order is facing resistance. Of course.

Here is our daily sampling of gun violence.

A 16-year-old girl was shot in the parking lot of the Miller’s Ale House in Fort Myers, Fla., on Saturday, leaving her brain-dead. Just before midnight, Kanasha Isaac and her friends got into their car when another car pulled up and blocked them into their parking space. A passenger side window rolled down and witnesses say Henry Brunson, 24, pulled out a handgun and started shooting. Isaac is being kept on life support so that her organs may be donated. Brunson has been arrested for second degree murder.

—WZVN

A teenage boy was shot at about 9:13 p.m. Saturday in Santa Ana, Calif., leaving him hospitalized. The teenager was reportedly walking down McFadden Avenue when two men in a Nissan pickup truck slowed down next to him. The passenger got out of the vehicle moments later and fired two shots at the victim, striking the young man in the lower torso. Authorities are not yet sure of the motive behind the shooting.

—Orange County Register



A man was shot inside his home in Fort Wayne, Ind., on Monday morning as he answered his front door. A gunman knocked on the door of the man’s residence, pushed his way inside and shot the victim in the upper chest and shoulder, leaving him in serious condition. Police believe the motive was robbery.

—INC NOW

A man lured his wife and several of her friends to the parking lot of a Murrysville, Pa., animal hospital by claiming her dog had been hit by a car. He then fatally shot one friend and critically wounded another before taking his own life. When Michael Lunsford, 21, met up with his 22-year-old wife, Ashley McHugh, and her friends sometime after 7 p.m. Saturday, they began arguing. When McHugh’s friends got out of the car to help her, Lunsford shot them. The couple had wed two months ago but their relationship was described as “rocky.” McHugh was unharmed.

—SF Gate

Briona Rodgers, 13, was shot to death Sunday inside a home in Dayton, Ohio. A second victim in the shooting was taken to Miami Valley Hospital, and according to police is “fighting to survive.” Police said the suspect, Dameon Wesley, 39, was recently released on parole after serving 20 years in prison for murder. He is at large.

—WTDN

Cedric Riley, 34, was shot and killed at his residence in Mobile, Ala., on Sunday. A next door neighbor said he heard four to five gunshots, came outside and saw Riley unconscious in the yard. The neighbor said he helped Riley’s wife get him into a car, and she drove him to nearby USA Medical Center, where he died. Police are investigating.

—Alabama Live

A 50-year-old Indiana man accidentally shot himself Saturday afternoon in the parking lot of Hara Arena after attending Bill Goodman’s Gun and Knife Show. Trotwood police Sgt. Brandon Holbrook said the man, a licensed CCW holder, purchased a holster at the gun show and was putting a handgun in that holster when it accidentally fired. The bullet struck a finger on his left hand and the man was rushed to Miami Valley Hospital. Holbrook said it was unlikely the finger would be able to be reattached.

—WHIO TV

According to Slate’s gun-death tracker, an estimated 2,272 Americans have died as a result of gun violence since the Newtown massacre on December 14, 2012.