The number of gun-related homicides and suicides each increased by more than 8% from 2020 to 2021, the CDC reported this week.
Oct. 7, 2022 -- The number of gun-related homicides and suicides each increased by more than 8% from 2020 to 2021, the CDC reported Thursday.
Thomas Simon, PhD, lead author of the study and associate director for science in the CDC's Division of Violence Prevention, noted that the 2021 firearm homicide rate for Black people in the 10 to 24 age group was about 25 times higher than the rate among white people in that age group,There were 25,987 total homicides by all means in 2021, up 5.9% from 2020, with almost 81% involving firearms. There were 48,023 total suicides by all means in 2021, a 4.
Gun purchases rose sharply in recent years. About 2.9% of U.S. adults became new owners from Jan. 1, 2019, to April 26, 2021, theThat amounts to 7.5 million new gun owners, with 5.4 million of them living in homes that previously didn’t have guns.
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