Bloody NRA Folk | Death Suicide Accidents Murder Track

Firearm deaths continue to be a significant and growing public health problem in the United States. In 2020, 79% of all homicides and 53% of all suicides involved firearms. From 2019 to 2020, the firearm homicide rate increased about 35%, and the firearm suicide rate stayed high. The firearm homicide rate in 2020 was the highest recorded in over 25 years.

Sadly, gun-related fatalities are a typical occurrence. Weapons killed more than 250,000 individuals throughout the globe in 2019. 71% of gun fatalities were murdered, 21% were suicides, and 8% were accidental firearms-related incidents.

Males accounted for almost nine out of every ten victims of gun violence in 2019. Those between the ages of 20 and 24 had the largest number of murder fatalities, while those between 55 and 59 had the highest number of gun-related suicides.

Six nations account for 65.9 percent of the predicted 250,227 gun-related fatalities in 2019: Brazil, the United States, Venezuela, Mexico, and Colombia.