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Black youth have the fastest-growing firearm suicide rate of any racial or ethnic group.

Everytown Research analysis of CDC, WONDER, Underlying Cause of Death. Rate percentage change: 2013 to 2022. Ages 10–24. AIAN, ANHPI, Black and white are defined as non-Latinx origin. Latinx defined as all races of Latinx origin.

of any racial or ethnic group.

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Every day, 125 people in the United States are killed with guns, twice as many are shot and wounded, and countless others are impacted by acts of gun violence.

Everytown Research analysis of CDC, WONDER, Provisional Mortality Statistics, Multiple Cause of Death, 2019–2023; Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project nonfatal firearm injury data, 2020; and SurveyUSA, Market Research Study #26602, 2022.

Last updated: 11.8.2024