2021 US gun-related homicides and suicides hit highest rate since 1990s, report finds
by Coral Murphy Marcos in New York from on (#64FYC)
CDC researchers found that Black and Hispanic communities saw the sharpest increase in firearm deaths in the US
US firearm homicides and suicides jumped to their highest rates in three decades from 2020 to 2021, according to a report by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC reported that gun-related homicides and suicides both climbed by more than 8% in 2021. Firearms caused 47,286 homicide and suicide deaths, after 43,675 in 2020.
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