The high rate of firearm homicides in the United States

Washington-Sana

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that the rate of murders caused by the use of firearms in the United States rose by 35 percent in 2020, to its highest level since 1994, confirming that it was much higher among people of African descent.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report: "African Americans were at least four times more likely to be killed with a firearm than the rest of the population as a whole, and 12 times more likely to be killed than white people."

The report indicated that "the rate of firearm homicides, which is measured per 100,000 people, increased from 4.6 in 2019 to 6.1 in 2020", and among Americans with black skin, the rate was 26.6 deaths per 100,000 people, an increase of 39.5 percent from 2019, as for Americans with black skin. White skin rate was 2.2 per hundred thousand.

According to preliminary figures, there were 19,350 firearms murders in 2020, of which 62 percent were African-American and 21 percent were white.

The total number of firearm suicides, measured separately, was 24,245 in 2020 and there was little change in the firearm suicide rate per 100,000 people to 8.1 from 7.9 in 2019.

The study pointed to the widening of the inequality, noting that the (Covid 19) pandemic may have exacerbated the social and economic pressures that already exist.

The increase in the frequency of armed violence related to the Corona virus pandemic was widely noted in 2020, as a report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation “FBI” last year showed that murders increased by 30 percent.

Shooting incidents are common in the United States, with the spread of a culture of violence in American society and the right to own a single gun.

Many international experts in the field of human rights believe that the right to own a gun in American law is a “fatal American freedom.” Mass killings that Americans wake up to from time to time are a prominent feature of American society.

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