...are White males off'ing themselves
http://smartgunlaws.org/category/gun-studies-statistics/gun-violence-statistics/
http://nyagv.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Suicide-and-Firearms-NYAGV.pdf
http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/ficap/resourcebook/pdf/monograph.pdf
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/05/24/suicides-account-for-most-gun-deaths/
Also, while the black per capita homicide rate is down 50% since the 90's, the white suicide rate has skyrocketed in the same time period.
http://www.newsweek.com/2013/05/22/...-epidemic-and-what-we-can-do-help-237434.html
Firearms were used in 19,392 suicides in the U.S. in 2010, constituting almost 62% of all gun deaths
White males, about 40% of the U.S. population, accounted for over 80% of firearm suicides in 2010
http://smartgunlaws.org/category/gun-studies-statistics/gun-violence-statistics/
http://nyagv.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Suicide-and-Firearms-NYAGV.pdf
http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/ficap/resourcebook/pdf/monograph.pdf
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/05/24/suicides-account-for-most-gun-deaths/
Also, while the black per capita homicide rate is down 50% since the 90's, the white suicide rate has skyrocketed in the same time period.
Among white, middle-aged men, the rate has jumped by more than 50 percent, according to a Newsweek analysis of the public data. If these guys were to create a breakaway territory, it would have the highest suicide rate in the world. In wealthy countries, suicide is the leading cause of death for men in their 40s, a top-five killer of men in their 50s, and the burden of suicide has increased by double digits in both groups since 1990.
The situation is even more dramatic for white, middle-aged women, who experienced a 60 percent rise in suicide in that same period
http://www.newsweek.com/2013/05/22/...-epidemic-and-what-we-can-do-help-237434.html