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Black children and teens are nearly 19 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, 2020 to 2024 (accessed December 16, 2025). Ages: 0–19. Black and white defined as non-Latinx origin. Homicide includes shootings by police.

Last updated: 1.27.2026

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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, 2020–2024; Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project nonfatal firearm injury data, 2020; and SurveyUSA, Market Research Study #26602, 2022.

Last updated: 1.15.2026