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[quote=Anonymous]Among African American children, the rate of gun deaths per 100,000 people was 11.8. That was more than five times the figure for other racial and ethnic groups. For white children and Hispanics, the figure was 2.3 per 100,000, and for Asian children, it was even lower, at 0.9.

Among young African Americans, more than 8 in 10 gun deaths were homicides, while fewer than 10% were suicides. The numbers were flipped for white youths. Two-thirds of all gun deaths among that group were suicides, while fewer than a quarter were homicides.

Black people in the United States bear the brunt of the gun violence epidemic. Here are just a few facts to highlight the disproportionate impact gun violence takes on Black communities:

Each day on average, 30 Black Americans are killed by guns and more than 110 experience non-fatal injuries. 
Black Americans experience 10 times the gun homicides of white Americans. 
Black Americans are nearly three times more likely to be shot and killed by police as white Americans.
Black Americans experience 18 times the gun assault injuries of white Americans.
68 percent of Black Americans or someone they care for has experienced gun violence.

https://gunresponsibility.org/blog/gun-violence-in-the-black-community-myths-and-facts/

The rampant gun violence that leads to people being murdered exists w/i the Black community. The gun deaths are mostly caused by handguns.

Gun homicide (mass shootings, so-called “everyday” violence, and police-involved shootings) is a universal American threat. But Black Americans are 10 times more likely than White Americans to die from it. And Black youth fare even worse. Black children and teens are 14 times more likely to die from gun homicide than their White counterparts.

CONCENTRATED GUN HOMICIDE IS TIED CLOSELY TO URBAN POVERTY, WHICH TRACKS INEQUALITY, WHICH TRACKS SEGREGATION, WHICH TRACKS RACE.

The same cities that experience disproportionate gun homicide — Detroit, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Newark, St. Louis, Chicago — all have large, segregated Black communities with a history of disinvestment. This segregation and disinvestment didn’t happen by nature, but by design. "Deindustrialization, discriminatory housing practices, and white flight from neighborhoods as Black families moved in pushed large numbers of Black people into poverty, perpetuating economic inequalities between white and Black people.” Today, many metropolitan areas remain just as segregated as they were in 1968.

Even within cities, gun homicide concentrates in specific areas. Yolanda Mitchell, Ph.D and Tiffany Bromfield, for instance, found that Philadelphia’s safest police district, which is about 85% White had no gun homicide in 2014, while Philadelphia’s most violent district, which is about 90% Black, had 40 gun deaths that same year.

https://www.bradyunited.org/issue/gun-violence-is-a-racial-justice-issue

When the UN Peacekeepers come to save us all from guns, make sure you tell them they are going to start in the cities first. They will go through poor Black neighborhoods and take guns from the people living in those neighborhoods. I am sure the UN Peacekeepers are going to be super excited and do a great job!

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