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Every three hours, a young Black male dies by gun homicide in the United States.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Web-Based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) Fatal Injury Reports. A yearly average was developed using five years of the most recent available data: 2015 to 2019. Analysis includes gun homicides including legal intervention among Black non-Hispanic/Latino children and teens ages 10 to 24.

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In a recent survey of 2,500 likely voters, 85 percent of respondents favored Congress passing an Extreme Risk law.

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82 percent of traced guns with a short time-to-crime that crossed state lines came from states without background check laws.

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76%

76 percent of traced guns that crossed state lines came from states without background check laws.

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Young Black men are 21 times more likely to be shot and killed by police than their white counterparts.

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