ABC News (12/6, Crittenden) reports there has “been a substantial increase in firearm-related deaths in the United States over the past three decades and Black men are the most affected, according to new researchfrom a team of emergency room” physicians that was published in JAMA. Black men are “23 times more likely to experience firearm-related homicide than white men, the study showed.” Violence related to firearms among “Black men is at a 28-year high, the analysis found.”
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— “Firearm deaths among Black men at 28-year high, doctors are taking steps to reframe gun violence as one of America’s major health crisis “Faith Crittenden, ABC News, December 6, 2022