Most Murder-Suicides Involve Guns, Are Committed by Men, and Target Intimate Partners, New VPC Study Shows
More than 1,000 people died in murder-suicides in America in 2025, 92 percent of the killers were male, 87 percent of the killers used a gun, and 65 percent involved an intimate partner according to the ninth edition of the Violence Policy Center (VPC) study American Roulette: Murder-Suicide in the United States. More>>
Nearly Nine out of 10 Black Homicide Victims Killed with Guns, VPC Study Finds
Nearly nine out of 10 of Black homicide victims die by gunfire according to the VPC's annual study Black Homicide Victimization in the United States. In 2023 there were 12,276 Black homicide victims in the United States. Of these victims, 10,563 (86.0 percent) died by gunfire. Black Americans comprised 13.7 percent of the U.S. population that year yet represented 53.8 percent of all homicide victims. More>>
States with Weaker Gun Laws and Higher Gun Ownership Have Highest Gun Death Rates, New 2024 Data Confirm
Just-released data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that states with the highest rates of overall gun death in the nation are those with weaker gun violence prevention laws and higher rates of gun ownership according to a new VPC analysis. More>>
American Indian/Alaska Native Community Disproportionately Impacted by Gun Death New VPC Study Reveals
Members of the American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) community are disproportionately impacted by lethal gun violence according to American Indian/Alaska Native Victims of Lethal Firearm Violence in the United States, a new study from the Violence Policy Center (VPC). More>>
