Some Numbers to Understand How Guns and Racism Go Hand in Hand

By Yessenia Funes Jul 08, 2016

 

Percentage of American gunowners who were Black in 2013:

12%

Percentage of American gunowners who were Latinx in 2013:

14%

Percentage of American gunowners who were White in 2013:

65%

Number of U.S. gun deaths among 20- to 29-year-old Black men between 2011 and 2013:

90 per 100,000

Number of U.S. gun deaths among 20- to 29-year-old White men between 2011 and 2013:

17 per 100,000

For every point someone scores as "racist," according to this study, that person’s odds of having a gun at home increase by:

50%

Number of states with open carry laws of varying restrictions:

45

Number of years since California passed the Mulford Act, which repealed public carrying of loaded firearms, partially in fear of the Black Panthers:

49