US has the highest rate of gun-related deaths in more than 25 years, CDC data shows

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The US firearm homicide rate in 2020 was the highest recorded since 1994, according to data published Tuesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

As an emergency physician in the United States for about 20 years, Houry said that it was a"frequent occurrence" to treat young men in the emergency room for gunshot wounds. They often would"bleed out" on her as she was resuscitating them.

— CDC May 10, 2022 From 2019 to 2020, the overall firearm homicide rate climbed from 4.6 deaths to 6.1 deaths per 100,000 people nationwide, according to the new data. But that increase was not equally distributed, revealing widening disparities in homicides.The largest increases in 2020 occurred among Black boys and men ages 10 to 44 and American Indian or Alaska Native men ages 25 to 44, the data showed.

 

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How does it compare with knife deaths in London?

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Being in Syria or Iraq is 20 times safer than being in the US

Now where are they killing themselves?

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And they talk about human right violation in other country 🙂

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