Guns are the number 1 cause of death for Gen Z, which is age 13-28 https://t.co/yMrpF7vHtD
— Jennifer Mascia (@JenniferMascia) April 17, 2025
Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun agitprop generator known as The Trace recently published an article claiming that the leading cause of death for Gen Z Americans — those born between 1997 and 2012 — is…guns. Because of course. The scribes at The Trace are paid to crank out exactly this kind of content that will then be picked up by the mainstream media and regurgitated over and over again. For years. Like the scorpion on the frog’s back, they can’t help themselves. It’s who they are.
But there’s much more to the numbers than The Trace’s Jennifer Mascia lets on. Treating the entire cohort as one indistinguishable lump hides the real story here. In fact, presenting it that way — as if the deaths are a general Gen Z problem and guns are the reason — is misleading to the point of dishonesty.
The problem is far more nuanced than Mascia is willing to acknowledge. Her article makes only a passing mention of the racial disparities in the data. She doesn’t provide those numbers, so I will.
Of 11,368 gun-related Gen Z deaths, nearly half (5,329) were among black youths and young adults. That’s wildly out of proportion to their 14% share of the population.
If those Gen Z deaths were a generalized problem attributable to “a combination of the availability of guns and the immaturity of adolescent brains,” the problem wouldn’t affect one demographic so much more than the others. Especially when whites own significantly more guns, but have on-fifth the death rate.
Demand for ever more gun control laws continues to be a convenient excuse to handwave away issues of race, class, culture and political failures in troubled cities that have been run by one party for generations. They’d rather blame guns than themselves.
Konstadinos Moros is an Associate Attorney with Michel & Associates, a law firm in Long Beach, California that regularly represents the California Rifle & Pistol Association in its litigation efforts to restore the Second Amendment in California. You can find him on his Twitter handle @MorosKostas. To donate to CRPA or become a member, visit https://crpa.org/.
This post was adapted by SNW from a tweet posted by Konstadinos Moros.
The Asian rate seems a little high tbh. We should remind leftists that lots of poor Asians have immigrated to the US without becoming murderers. As noted, it’s not a gun problem. It’s also important to note that it isn’t a poor problem either.
Why won’t they recognize the actual problems? Answer: because they have no interest in solving those problems. The only problems they’re interested in solving involves moar money and power. Power gets you access to money, and money gets you access to power. It isn’t Communism. It isn’t Fascism. It’s Griftism. If they die, they die. (Yes, it’s supremely evil.)
P.S. I’m still going to call them commies.
That made me laugh! It was good. Also I completely agree with your first comment. You nailed it.
The Federal government as represented by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) has a policy lumping Hispanic/Metizo in with Whites (European). If you break down the White category in the table shown in the article, Whites are a significantly lower percentage of the death by firearms statistics. The Appalachian region has some of the poorest counties in the country but high firearm ownership rates. This region is predominantly populated by Whites of European heritage but has a low death by firearms rate comparable to some European nations. Sometimes reality is painful and unacceptable to some group’s political agenda.