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That's teen gangs blasting each other in certain hotspots. Not kids accidentally being killed by firearms in average homes.

• mbrubeck 4y ago
  To elaborate, it's around 65% homicide, 30% suicide, and 5% accidental or undetermined.
  • orangepurple 4y ago
    Compare homicide rates FIGURE 8: Male Gun Death Rates by Race/Ethnicity, 2020 A Year in Review: 2020 Gun Deaths in the U.S https://publichealth.jhu.edu/sites/default/files/2022-05/2020-gun-deaths-in-the-us-4-28-2022-b.pdf https://publichealth.jhu.edu/sites/default/files/2022-05/202... Live map of Chicago: https://heyjackass.com/ https://heyjackass.com/ Scroll down and look at who the real victims are (it's sad) 2022 Race of Victim/Assailant https://heyjackass.com/?p=382 https://heyjackass.com/?p=382
    • toyg 4y ago
      That last link is so upsetting. Not just because of the racial composition, but also because of the assailant/victim ratio being 25/220, which means an average of 11 victims per assailant.
      • dotancohen 4y ago
        9, not 11. But that is still significant.
        • toyg 4y ago
          The loss of math abilities is probably a side effect of the bout of COVID I'm currently experiencing. Probably.
      • concordDance 4y ago
        That is just where assailant's race is known and recorded.
      • orangepurple 4y ago
        The homicide clearance rate in Chicago is at or under 50% and approximately 50% of those identified as assailants had no charges filed against them. This implies the assailant figures may be 4x under represented. Who knows? https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2022/3/31/22996487/cpd-police-department-clearance-murder-solved-rate-david-brown-kim-foxx-prosecutor-charges https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2022/3/31/22996487/cpd-po...
• adgjlsfhk1 4y ago
  yes. Texas and Florida have the highest gun deaths in the country.
  • pronlover723 4y ago
    Double false. First's it's not true. #1 and #2 are Texas and Californa Second, unless you at least divide by population the comparisons are meaningless. A state with 1 person in it is going to have less death in general than a state with a million people Dividing by population the top 10 are Mississippi Louisiana Wyoming Missouri Alabama Alaska New Mexico Arkansas South Carolina Tennessee Texas is 26th, Floria is 29th Source: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/...
    • kosherhurricane 4y ago
      The bottom 7 are California Connecticut New York Rhode Island New Jersey Massachusetts Hawaii I wonder if the strong gun laws in California and NY, NJ have anything with them being at the bottom.
      • throwaway0a5e 4y ago
        I'd bet that (like damn near every other violent crime) it correlates stronger with income than anything else.
        • adgjlsfhk1 4y ago
          Teasing out the correlation and causation here is difficult. People generally don't like getting shot, so it's plausible that stricter gun control is at least partially responsible for the higher wages, since places with better gun control laws are more attractive areas to set up businesses in.
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