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Nationwide, a Black man is fourteen times more likely than a white man to be shot to death.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. WONDER Online Database, Underlying Cause of Death. Based upon the five years of the most recent available data: 2015 to 2019.

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Women in the U.S. are 21 times more likely to be killed by guns than women in other high-income countries.

Grinshteyn, E. and Hemenway, D. “Violent Death Rates in the US Compared to Those of the Other High-income Countries, 2015.” Preventive Medicine. (2019). https://bit.ly/3kyfsSs