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More Americans were killed by guns in 2020 than any other year on record, according to a report released last week.
Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions crunched the numbers provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and found gun violence surged while large swaths of the country were in lockdown during the COVID-19 outbreak.
The report said gun-related deaths increased by 15 percent to 45,222, which is the highest recorded since 1968. About 124 people died a day in the U.S. due to gun-related incidents.
Shooting homicides jumped 35 percent compared to 2019, or about 5,000 additional deaths.
Firearm homicides increased 35 percent in 2020, with nearly 5,000 more homicides compared to 2019, the report said. The number of firearm deaths increased to a record level in 2020, the rate—13.62 per 100,000 deaths—did not exceed the historic highs of the 1990s.
“Some of these data are stunning,” Cassandra Crifasi, associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins, said. She said the number of firearm homicides among black women jumped by nearly 50 percent.
TREND FORECAST: The Trends Journal had issued extensive forecast on the negative impact COVID-19 lockdowns would have on society, especially the young.
The CDC report showed young people were the most impacted by the increase in gun violence. Those under 30 were 10 times more likely to die by a gun than in previous years.
Those 75 and older used guns to commit suicide at twice the national average. (See “LOCKDOWN LUNACY CREATING ‘MENTAL HEALTH PANDEMIC,” “MENTALLY ILL POLITICIANS CREATING MENTAL ILLNESS” and “GUN VIOLENCE SURGES ACROSS U.S.”
As Gerald Celente, the publisher of The Trends Journal, warned that COVID-19 lockdowns would kill the human spirit and lead to a never-before-seen mental health breakdown in society.
The draconian lockdown orders destroyed the lives and livelihoods of scores of millions, especially the lower economic class.
“When people lose everything and have nothing left to lose, they lose it,” Celente has said.
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The outbreak of the coronavirus in early 2020 was used by politicians to impose dictatorial, unprecedented, un-scientific draconian measures to “flatten the curve.”
But as we have extensively reported, the lockdown policies proved to be ineffective in stopping transmission and negatively impacted the psychological, physical, emotional, and financial well-being of millions of Americans, and citizens across the globe.
Americans also bought guns at an unprecedented rate. From March 2020 until June, the FBI ran 13,674,878 background checks for gun purchases, indicating a 42 percent jump in comparison to the same timeframe in 2019.
The newly released report provided an in-depth analysis of the 2020 CDC firearm fatality data, which was made public in December 2021, Johns Hopkins said.
Gun deaths among children and teenagers rose by 29.5 percent, more than twice that of the wider population. The Johns Hopkins report pointed out that young black men represent about 2 percent of the U.S. population, but account for about 38 percent of all gun homicide deaths in 2020. More than half of all Black teens who died in 2020 were killed by gun violence, the report said.
More than 390 million guns are owned by residents in the U.S. The report said that states with the most robust gun laws have lower gun-related death rates.
“We knew gun violence had increased but I was surprised by the level of increase for just one year,” Dr Jason Goldstick, a researcher with IFIP and associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Michigan, told The Guardian. “I can’t remember ever seeing that before.”
The BBC pointed out that drug overdoses and poisonings rose 83.6 percent from 2019 to 2020. The report said a separate study published in April found that 954 young people died of overdoses in 2020, compared to 492 in 2019.
TRENDPOST: As written about in the 4 October 2020 Trends Journal, The Great Barrington Declaration, signed by thousands of physicians and health professionals, called for the end of lockdowns, which are “producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health.”
The Declaration was endorsed by over 12,000 international medical and public health scientists and over 34,000 medical practitioners. Despite the fact that so many in the health profession signed the Declaration, it is ignored by the mainstream media.
“For people who are under 60, the lockdown harms, mentally and physically, are worse than COVID. Lockdowns have absolutely catastrophic effects on physical and mental populations both domestically and internationally…. For children, the flu is worse. We’ve had more flu deaths of children this year than COVID deaths. For children, COVID is less of a risk than the lockdowns. Opening schools is absolutely vital,” Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor of Medicine at Stanford and lead author of the declaration, wrote at the time.
The COVID War has destroyed life on earth and killed hundreds of millions of more lives and livelihoods than the virus has over the past two plus years.
But the political criminals who, with their “health experts” decided which businesses were “essential” and which were not, annihilated major sectors of the economy that will not come back for decades… or at all.
Yet, there is never a mention of these and other important facts by the mainstream media. Instead, they just pump out government and corporate agenda bullshit and narrow ranges of data that are a tiny fraction of the big picture.