Speaking of imbalance, in the USA, Black and American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) people have the highest firearm mortality rates of any racial or ethnic group. The U.S. also ranks at the 92nd percentile of all countries and territories for child and teen firearm mortality.

Source: Evan D. Gumas, Munira Z. Gunja, and Reginald D. Williams II, “Comparing Deaths from Gun Violence in the U.S. with Other Countries,” chartpack, Commonwealth Fund, Oct. 2024. https://doi.org/10.26099/1t4e-7h62

When I’m sitting at home, I am not living in constant fear of fending off robbers and rapists, or fantasizing about murdering them with a firearm.

A perpetrator with a victim complex.