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-There were 231,991 deaths in 2016. 16.6% were gun related.

-There were 38,658 gun deaths in 2016.

          -22,938 gun deaths were suicides (59%).

-14,415 gun deaths were homicides (37%).

-Of the gun homicides:

          -12,213 of the victims were male (85%)

- 8,434 of the victims were black (58.5%)

- 5,560 of the victims were white (38.6%)

-1,325 of the victims were under 18 years of age (9%)

- There were 4,947 non-firearm homicides in 2016.

- There were 22,027 non-firearm suicides in 2016.

-There were 161,374 unintentional deaths in 2016. That’s 69.5% of all deaths

               -54,793 were from drug poisoning (34%)

               -40,327 were from motor vehicles (25%)

               -34,673 were from falls (21.5%)

               -495 were from firearms (0.3%)

 

-Of the 987 people shot and killed by police in 2017:

-223 were black (22.6%)

-940 were male (95%)

-162 were in California. The most of any state.


https://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/dataRestriction_inj.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/police-shootings-2018/?utm_term=.d5085db51ce6

         (There's a link to 2017 on this page but I ran out of free access before I got the 2017 link)

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I was surprised to find that 2016 saw more accidental death by drug poisoning than accidental death by motor vehicle.

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