U.S. gun homicides reached highest level in 25 years during Covi

U.S. gun homicides reached highest level in 25 years during Covid pandemic, CDC says

 

• The U.S. homicide rate from gun violence rose 35% in the first year of the pandemic to the highest level since 1994, according to the CDC.
• Excluding suicides, more than 19,000 people were killed by guns in 2020 compared with more than 14,000 the year prior, according to the CDC report. 
• Homicides from gun violence increased among people of every age, in most racial groups, for men and women, in cities and in rural areas, and in every region of the nation.
• Black Americans suffered the most with the homicide rate from gun violence increasing nearly 40% to 26.6 per 100,000 people, about 12 times higher than the rate among white Americans.
• https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/10/us-gun-homicides-reached-highest-level-in-25-years-during-covid-pandemic-cdc-says.html
•