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Black children and teens are more than 18 times more likely than white children and teens of the same age to die by gun homicide.

Everytown Research analysis of CDC, WONDER, Provisional Mortality Statistics, Multiple Cause of Death, 2019 to 2023. Ages: 0–19. Black and white defined as non-Latinx origin. Homicide includes shootings by police.

Last updated: 11.7.2024

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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