Researchers speculate about what's behind the recent rise in homicides and suicides caused by firearms
NORC at the University of Chicago. Hemenway notes that non-firearm suicides and homicides barely changed in 2021.
“It’s often hard to truly understand year-to-year variations in injury deaths, but the cause here seems pretty straightforward,” he says. “We have more people with more guns between 2020 and 2021.”to be killed by a gun. Black Americans were the most likely to be killed in firearm homicides, and although every age group experienced elevated rates compared to other racial groups, the most vulnerable were Black people ages 25 to 44.
Dr. Garen Wintemute, director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis , said that there may be a dangerous combination of explanations for the increase, including the pandemic’s impact. ”We’re living a massive social experiment,” he says.
The authors of the analysis write that while they cannot explain the cause of the increases, systemic inequalities—including unequal economic, housing, and employment opportunities—and structural racism have exacerbated disparities, and the
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