More than 67,000 Americans died of of violence-related injuries in 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a new report on Thursday.The 2019 total, which is the latest available in the series, represents a slight decline from the prior year's total of about 68,000 violent deaths, and precedes more recent trends of rising murder rates.The found that about 43,100 people died of suicides in 2019, accounting for 64.1 percent of violent deaths, and that half of all suicides involved firearms.
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