Deadly shootings are increasing in the United States after constant declines
Deadly shootings are increasing in the United States after constant declines
This is a story from Kaiser Health News.
After a steady decline for more than two decades, deadly fire is increasing across the country, according to a new government report.
The researchers also said that the number of suicides related to a firearm increased by 21 percent between 2006 and 2016.
The report, published on thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, they analyzed deaths with firearms throughout the country and in 50 of the main metropolitan areas. The researchers found an increase in homicides with firearms in 2015 and 2016, reversing a downward trend and bringing them to a level comparable to a decade ago.
He also reported that fatal shootings increased in all age groups across the country.
"It is too early to know whether the recent increases in homicide rates with firearms represent a short-term fluctuation or the beginning of a longer-term trend," the report said.
The findings were published shortly after an armed man in Thousand Oaks, California, killed 12 people, including a county sheriff's deputy, at a bar popular with college students, and less than two weeks after an armed man entered a Pittsburgh synagogue and killed 11 people.
Despite the high publicity obtained by the mass shootings in recent years, the Pew Research Center He reported earlier that the rate of homicides with firearms began to decline in the 1990s and then remained fairly stable between 2001 and 2014.
Federal investigators analyzed mortality and population data from the 50 most populated metropolitan areas in the country to calculate firearm homicides and suicides during two periods, 2015-2016 and 2012-2013. The group also highlighted the rate of these incidents among young people aged 10 to 19.
According to the report, more than 27,000 people died in homicides with firearms in 2015-2016, with a death rate of 4.4 per 100,000 people. The rate is higher for the 50 cities, where more than 17,000 people died, or 4.9 per 100,000 people.
In comparison, almost 23,000 people died across the country and more than 14,000 died in those cities from gun homicide in 2012-2013.
Andrew Papachristos, a professor of sociology at Northwestern University who was not involved in the study, said changes in the level of violence with firearms can come from a variety of factors, including different police protocols, gang violence and general distrust.
The efforts of the federal government to investigate violence with firearms have been governed by the Dickey amendment, a legislative corridor for funding that groups seeking stricter control of firearms felt limited CDC efforts to examine the issue. But federal health officials, including Alex Azar, the secretary of Health and Human Services, say it does not prevent the federal investigation.
According to the report, almost 45,000 people committed suicide with a gun in 2015-2016, more than 3,000 more than in 2012-2013. The increase was also extended to city dwellers, although the death rate among city dwellers was significantly lower than for the country as a whole.
According to the report, a little over 2,100 young people, including 851 in the main cities, died by suicide with firearms in 2015-2016.
The researchers noted that the sharp increase in gun suicides for a decade coincided in part with the Great Recession that began in 2007. But the increases have continued despite the economic recovery, they said.
The ease of access to a weapon has proven to be a key link for these acts. The time between deciding to commit suicide and trying can be as short as 10 minutes, according to the report, so finding a weapon quickly can make the attempt much easier. Often, people do not try an alternative method when the highly lethal route is not available.
The report emphasized the proper storage of firearms to reduce the risk of suicide.
Jonathan Metzl, director of the Center for Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University, which was not involved in the study, said that mental health professionals have difficulty trying to predict who is at risk.
"People act impulsively in times of despair," Metzl said. "And it may or may not be linked to a psychiatric illness."
Men are also at greater risk of death by suicide with a firearm. According to the report, men and boys accounted for 85 percent of deaths in both the 50 major cities and nationally.
Approximately the same proportion of men died from homicide with a firearm. However, it is important to keep in mind that these problems affect different populations, said Papachristos. Minorities represent a disproportionate proportion of homicides., while suicide claims a disproportionate number of white men.
Kaiser Health News is a non-profit news service that covers health problems. It is an independent editorial program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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