One Chart Showing How Race Influences Your Chance of Dying from Gun Violence

One Chart Showing How Race Influences Your Chance of Dying from Gun Violence:

The waves of press following recent horrific mass shootings in Connecticut, Colorado, and elsewhere have brought gun violence back onto the national agenda.

One thing that sometimes gets obscured in the debate, however: The victims of gun violence remain overwhelmingly African-American. Indeed, black people make up just about 13% of the population of the United States — but more than half of all victims of gun violence.

Black victims are overwhelmingly killed by handguns, and the congressional focus on semi-automatic rifles has no obvious connection to the violence plaguing cities like Chicago.

One factor in the intense focus on white victims may be who is leading the conversation. Here's a snapshot of the people talking about guns on cable news between January 29 and February 5:

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One Chart Showing How Race Influences Your Chance of Dying from Gun Violence

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     One Chart Showing How Racism from the time of these centuries and the places of this America Influences Your Chance of Dying from Gun Violence