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Communities of color experience gun homicides at the highest and fastest-growing rates

Source: CDC, WONDER, Underlying Cause of Death, 2019–2021. Black, AIAN, white, and API defined as non-Latinx origin.

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Every day, nearly 130 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, 2021–2025; Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project nonfatal firearm injury data, 2020; and SurveyUSA, Market Research Study #26602, 2022.

Last updated: 10.7.2026