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12/29/2008: "Huge increase in black men killed/killing by firearms"

Last year, for example, 426 black males between the ages of 14 and 17 were killed in gun crimes, the study shows. That marked a 40% increase from 2000.

Similarly, an estimated 964 in the same age group committed fatal shootings in 2007 â€" a 38% increase from seven years earlier. The number of offenders is estimated because not all crimes are reported, said Northeastern criminologist James Alan Fox, who co-authored the study.

"Although the overall rate of homicide in the United States remains relatively low, the landscape is quite different for countless Americans living, and some dying, in violence-infested neighborhoods," Fox said.

[ There is an expectation that Obama will sort this problem out. ]

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1868893,00.html