Homicide rates vary by race.

During 2022, the national firearm homicide rate decreased for the first time since the sharp increase from 2019 to 2020. Nonetheless, the rate in 2022 (5.9 per 100,000) remained substantially higher than the 2019 rate....

The annual rate among Black persons during 2022 (27.5) was ... still substantially higher than in 2019 (20.5).

Among AI/AN persons, the rate during 2022 (9.3) exceeded the rates in both 2021 (7.7) and 2020 (7.9).

During 2022, the rate among Hispanic persons leveled off (5.5) but remained higher than that in 2019 (3.8).

Rates among non-Hispanic White and A/PI persons, although lower, also increased from 2019 to 2021, followed by a decrease in 2022..

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Black lives matter.

This is a danger in the inner city: and it is a threat to the teenagers trying to be good. and it often overlaps other crimes.

Not that race is always accurate of course.

and they lump Black Americans together: not separating the more recent immigrant groups from those who were descended from slaves.And one suspects the homicide rate would be higher among Somali immigrants because there is a gang problem, but lower among those from Africa or the West Indies. 

and a lot of this is connected with drugs: Either by gangs selling drugs, or by people who are chronic users of drugs..

and the dirty little secret is that not all deaths by firearms are homicides:

I turn to the Minnesota data

Homicides and homicide rates spiked in 2020—a trend also observed nationally—while other manners of violent death did not.

 what does that mean? car accidents I presume are considered by them as violent deaths? Falls? drownings>

ironically not all firearm deaths are homicides:

Firearms were used in 45% of suicide deaths, 65% of homicide deaths and 54% of inter-personal violence homicide deaths.

Most firearm deaths, 75%, were suicide. 

italics mine. 

Minnesota has large racial disparities in suicide and homicide rates. Suicide rates in Minnesota are highest among the American Indian Population, more than 70% higher than for the white population.

yes. The Indian Health Service has an aggressive outreach to fight the suicide problem on the reservations, which is often associated with drug or alcohol abuse problems.

Most people think of the reason they need gun control in the USA is mass shootings, but they are wrong.

The problem is gangs and suicide.

Many people understandably assume the high number of gun deaths in the U.S. is due to mass shootings, which receive frequent attention from the media. In truth, mass shootings account for only a small percentage of gun deaths in the United States. Rather, nearly two-thirds (63%) of gun deaths in the US in 2019 were suicides.

Again, back to the Minnesota data on gun homicide:

Homicide rates in the state are highest among the Black or African American population and the American Indian population, more than 10 times the rate of the white population.

italics mine. Essentially this is an epidemic that kills a lot of young people, mostlyyoung black men, but it is easier to cry racism than to rebuild a community with jobs creation, decent schools, getting rid of drugs, and helping churches rebuild their family outreaches.

Presumably poverty is part of the problem, except it is lower among the Hispanics, who tend to be poorer than these groups. Perhaps the culture of strong family connections in  Hispanic culture helps prevent the gangs and drugs, and one shudders when one sees young men without families being allowed to enter the US: because it takes family ties to stablize young men. 

Then we come to the anti depressant hysteria that is pushed every time a person goes amok and it is found they were on treatment. 

no statistics about drug use in homicides, or about perpetrators who kill being on such medication. 

However one does see this paradox in the suicide statistics:

Antidepressants were found in the systems of 29.8% of females who died by suicide, compared to 12.1% in males.

This suggests that undertreatment of clinical deperssion might be the cause. But again no data here about illicit drugs or alcohol: although it has long been known that alcholics have a high suicide rate. And of course alcohol has long been associated with domestic abuse . 

I had written: Families are protective against such violence: True...Except when they aren't:

Spouses were suspected as the perpetrator in 21.1% of homicide cases where the victim was female. The victim’s boyfriend or girlfriend was suspected in an additional 15.5% of cases.

drug and alcohol abuse not only is associated with homicides and suicides, they are a major factor in car accidents. and don''t forget the 100 thousand fentanyl deaths a year thanks to China and the Mexical cartels and the open border policies that make smuggling easy.

Sigh.