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Do you have a source on gang violence? Of the numbers I've seen, in total gun related dealths are evenly split between suicide and homicide. Of the homicides,
by ethbr1 2y ago
Do you have a source on gang violence?
Of the numbers I've seen, in total gun related dealths are evenly split between suicide and homicide.
Of the homicides, ~10-50% are gang related (depending on source) and ~50% are drug-related (including overlap with gang).
F.ex. intimate partner violence being another major homicide category.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoNot off-hand. Last time I looked into it, tagging homicide associations was a pretty messy business. I think drug related gun homicides and gang homicides two side to the same coin. I've seen numbers on the order of 10% for intimate gun partner homicide. The percent is much higher for women, but women are a minority of gun homicide victims overall.
- ethbr1 2y agoI looked at a variety of sources for the above numbers, but it certainly didn't seem like gang- or drug-specific associations drove the majority of non-suicide gun deaths. A decent chunk, but there are other reasons. One surprising / not surprising other fact: ~50-75% of gun deaths involve alcohol and ~25% meth.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoWould be curious to see what you are looking at too. Many deaths have no attribution as well, which could well fall into drug or gang.