Young men in violent parts of Philadelphia, Chicago die from guns at a higher rate than US troops in the heat of battle
- Written by Alex Knorre, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Boston College
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.
The vast majority of gun homicides are murders that happen in an extremely concentrated number of neighborhoods – places where the rate of gun deaths rivals war zones.
As a scholar of gun...






