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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...

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