Mass shootings tend to dominate the debate over gun violence—but they accounted for just 3% of all firearm homicides in the United States in 2021.
Heatmap of gun violence in four selected cities. New York and Los Angeles are considerably safer than Chicago and Philadelphia. The bright hot spot ZIP codes in New York and LA had 2-3 gun homicides each year but a small number of young male residents, which inflates the rate. Credit: Alex Knorre
Homicides disproportionately affect the young largely because men ages 15 to 25 are more likely to engage in delinquent and criminal behavior, a phenomenon known as the During 2020 and 2021, this ZIP code was home to about 2,500 young men. Thirty-seven were killed in gun homicides. For example, many service members do not engage in active combat. This fact made our research team wonder if including data from personnel in safer support roles was skewing our data, so we specifically looked at the casualties of one U.S. brigade combat team that was heavily engaged during the Iraq War.
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