![]() ![]() All these deaths – rural suicide, urban murder and mass shootings everywhere – have one thing in common: guns.Right now in Spark!Lab, we’re exploring the theme “Eat.” Watching visitors devise creative new ways to grow, harvest, transport, and cook food has piqued my curiosity about the inventors and inventions behind many of my everyday meals. In other words, it’s generations of neglect and division that help drive the murder rate in cities. In Chicago, they said, gun homicides in 20 were concentrated in neighborhoods far from the city center “that have long suffered from severe disinvestment as a result of white flight, and are now centers of concentrated poverty with predominantly Black residents.” In the large cities hardest hit by gun violence, there are areas that are relatively untouched compared with areas that are under attack, as researchers from the Brookings Institution found in a report published last month. The cities were: Philadelphia Austin, Texas Columbus, Ohio Indianapolis Portland, Oregon Memphis, Tennessee Louisville, Kentucky Milwaukee Albuquerque, New Mexico and Tucson, Arizona. ![]() The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a rise in gun violence, and in January, a CNN analysis found 10 of the nation’s most populous cities set homicide records last year, mostly because of guns. ![]() Jackson, Mississippi – 69 gun homicides per 100,000 people.īaltimore, where the gun laws are relatively strict, was next.It is heartbreaking.Īccording to Everytown’s analysis of FBI data, the cities with the highest gun homicide rates in 2020 were all in states with lax gun laws: Read this CNN dispatch about murders in Jackson. There are higher murder rates in other cities, and they’re often in places with more lax gun laws, like Jackson, Mississippi. In 2020, 54% of gun deaths in the US were suicides, which are far less likely to get sustained public attention, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of CDC data.ĬNN wrote in 2019 about the rising suicide rate and a study published in the journal JAMA Network Open that found higher suicide rates in rural areas – and, in cities, if there was a gun shop in the neighborhood.Ĭities often have higher gun violence rates than statesĬhicago does have a horrifically high murder rate, although the guns there often come from a neighboring state. Obviously mass shootings can happen anywhere, as we saw earlier this month in Buffalo, New York, and this week in Uvalde, Texas.īut most gun deaths do not involve a mass shooting. The states with lower gun violence rates are mostly among the states with the strongest gun laws.Ĭonversely, with the exception of Louisiana, the states with the highest gun death rates and highest gun ownership rates are among the states Everytown says have the most lax gun laws. The advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety, which endorses stronger gun laws, takes the CDC data on gun deaths per 100,000 residents and puts that alongside each state’s gun laws. Hawaii – 3.4 (8% of adults live in a household with a gun).Texas does not have the highest gun death rate, however. That’s a rate of 14.2 deaths per 100,000 Texans.Ĭalifornia, by comparison, saw 3,449 deaths, a gun death rate of 8.5. ![]() Texas suffered 4,164 gun deaths in 2020, the most recent year for which the CDC has published data. CNN has covered the problem.īut there are more gun deaths in Texas, by far, than in any other state, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There are indeed a horrific number of gun deaths in Chicago each year. “I hate to say this, but there are more people who were shot every weekend in Chicago than there are in schools in Texas,” Abbott said on Wednesday, arguing stricter gun laws are not a solution. Greg Abbott’s attempt to explain away gun deaths at the elementary school in his state this week by comparing them to gun violence in Chicago. The indisputable fact is that where there are more guns, there are more gun deaths. People can debate the need for more or fewer armed guards at American schools, the use of active shooter drills and the wisdom of the idea that maybe even teachers should be packing heat.īut there’s one thing that is indisputable in the available data on gun violence – and the data is limited since until recently the federal government was effectively barred from gathering it. ![]()
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