The rate of U.S. gun homicides jumped nearly 35% in 2020 to the highest level in more than 25 years. And gaps widened for groups already at the highest risk, especially Black men and boys.
More than 19,000 homicides in 2020 involved a firearm — an increase of nearly 5,000 from 2019.
Black men and boys aged 10 to 24 died by gun homicide more than 21 times as often as white males in the same age groups, the report found. Deaths by gun have long been linked to economic factors like income inequality, unemployment and housing instability. The rate of suicides using a firearm — about 8 per 100,000 Americans — stayed roughly steady in 2020, a trend that has held for several years.
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