A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed a historic increase in the number of deaths from Firearms in the United States, especially in the case of homicides.
“In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a 35% increase in the firearm homicide rate, with the rate in 2020 reaching its highest level in more than 25 years,” says a statement from the CDC.
Likewise, it indicated that the rate of suicides with firearms remained “persistently high with increases among some groups.”
United States President Joe Biden announced in early April new regulations against firearms, specifically home-made ones.
“If you buy a sofa that you have to put together, it’s still a sofa. If you order a package like this here, which includes the parts you need and directs the assembly of a working firearm, you bought a gun,” he said in that then the president.
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