The vast majority of gun deaths in America are either suicides or homicides, according to federal data, with accidental or undetermined gun deaths representing a small fraction of the overall share, reported the Washington Post.
Two different demographic groups bear the brunt
of escalating gun violence and are most likely to die of
a gunshot wound in America: young Black men and older White men.
White men are six times as likely to die by suicide
as other Americans. Black men are 17 times as likely to be killed with a gun
fired by someone else.
About 60 percent of the gun deaths in the United
States each year are suicides, according to CDC data spanning the past 20 years.
Firearms accounted for about 8 percent of suicide
attempts but slightly more than 50 percent of the 47,511 suicide deaths in
2019, according to the American Association of Suicidology. Men
are nearly four times as likely as women to die in a suicide attempt, mainly
because they are much more likely to use a gun.
Of the 90,498 gun deaths in 2020 and 2021, 38,796
were homicides. Nearly 21,000 of those victims were Black men.
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