America's gun epidemic is deadlier than ever, and there are vast disparities in who's dying

[rangerrebew]

America's gun epidemic is deadlier than ever, and there are vast disparities in who's dying
Story by Deidre McPhillips • Yesterday 11:58 AM
 
Firearm deaths surged in the US during the Covid-19 pandemic, killing a record number of people in 2021. But as America’s gun epidemic gets worse, its burden is not equal.
 
A new study published Tuesday in JAMA Network Open analyzed firearm deaths over the past three decades – a total of more than 1 million lives lost since 1990. The researchers found that firearm mortality rates increased for most demographic groups in recent years – especially during the pandemic – and vast disparities persisted.
 
While recent data shows some familiar patterns, the sheer scale of the issue brings the United States to a “new moment in the history of firearm fatalities,” said Dr. Eric Fleegler, a pediatric emergency physician and researcher with Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and co-author of the study.

“At this moment in time, we have seen a dramatic increase that is really unparalleled,” he said. “During the time of the Covid pandemic, going from 2019 up to 2021, we’ve seen over a 25% increase in fatalities in two years alone. That has never happened.”

Overall, men are significantly more at risk. Nearly 86% of all firearm deaths since 1990 have been among men, according to the study, which used data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The researchers found that firearm homicides were highest among Black men, and firearm suicide rates were highest among senior White men.
 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/america-s-gun-epidemic-is-deadlier-than-ever-and-there-are-vast-disparities-in-who-s-dying/ar-AA14HhrT?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=d333263aa1bb4c27abb4f5a60016702b

[Kamaji]

Notice how they ever so delicately tiptoe around the real cause of the violence:  culture.

[rangerrebew]

Either the study omitted, or more likely, CNN omitted statistics on WHO WAS DOING ALL THE KILLING.  My guess is statistics would show black lives don't matter nearly as much as CNN and the liberal media have been trying to convince everyone is a valid belief, particularly among blacks.

[Kamaji]

Either the study omitted, or more likely, CNN omitted statistics on WHO WAS DOING ALL THE KILLING.  My guess is statistics would show black lives don't matter nearly as much as CNN and the liberal media have been trying to convince everyone is a valid belief, particularly among blacks.

[EdinVA]

The FBI's website claims something on the order of 13,000 total homicides average per year so 30 years would total about 300,000-400,000.... Someone is lying..
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8.xls

[Free Vulcan]

Notice how they ever so delicately tiptoe around the real cause of the violence:  culture.

And woke DA's cultivating that culture.

[GtHawk]

Not that I believe the numbers from an agenda driven source, but I wonder just how many of those firearm deaths during the lockdown were suicides by people already on the edge pushed over the edge by the isolation increasing their feelings of despair? Shouldn't all those deaths be attributed tp Fauci rather than firearms?

[Smokin Joe]

Not that I believe the numbers from an agenda driven source, but I wonder just how many of those firearm deaths during the lockdown were suicides by people already on the edge pushed over the edge by the isolation increasing their feelings of despair? Shouldn't all those deaths be attributed tp Fauci rather than firearms?

[libertybele]

Not that I believe the numbers from an agenda driven source, but I wonder just how many of those firearm deaths during the lockdown were suicides by people already on the edge pushed over the edge by the isolation increasing their feelings of despair? Shouldn't all those deaths be attributed tp Fauci rather than firearms?

What about all those who couldn't be with their loved ones while they were dying in the hospital of COVID?  Talk about despair and heartbreak.

Loneliness, heartbreak, despair and death are all on Fauci!!! Who knows what the contributing factors were on these gun-related deaths.

[Smokin Joe]

What about all those who couldn't be with their loved ones while they were dying in the hospital of COVID?  Talk about despair and heartbreak.

Loneliness, heartbreak, despair and death are all on Fauci!!! Who knows what the contributing factors were on these gun-related deaths.

Not to mention desperation from economic devastation due to lockdowns.