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There's a rising epidemic on the horizon and it may hit closer to home than you think:

First-of-its-kind study shows that an algorithm can forecast the likelihood of firearm suicides among gun purchasers using some risk factors.

On state-run tv which aired around the world in english called u.s. democracy, a reality check. >> another fallout from the democratic process is what many believe to be an excessive ownership of guns. as of 2018, it was estimated there's approximately around 400 million civilian owned guns in america. that means there's more guns than there are people and cars in the u.s. the u.s. has the highest rate of mass shooting, gun-related homicides and firearm suicides. >> gillian, russia called the u.s. democracy summit "pathetic." there's some western voices that questioned how much was words, how ...

To talk about today. this is the report that shows the level of gun violence in this country is skyrocketing. an analysis from the cdc and data conducted by cnn reveals gun deaths in the u.s. have reached its highest level in nearly 40 years. cnn's jessica dean is here with me, and i know these numbers came out of what happened in 2017 specifically. what is going on? >> reporter: well, brooke, we did a cnn analysis building off these numbers that were crunched by the educational fund to stop gun violence, a nonprofit gun policy advocacy group. here's what the analysis found. let's start first ...

Under 40,000. the amount of white men dying by firearm suicide has continued to rise since 2006. from there we took a look at firearm homicide deaths, and, man, you're going to see while white men are more likely to die of firearm suicide, black or african-american men are more likely to die in a murder involving a guy. get this. a new study in the british medical journal shows that guns are killing black americans at much younger ages than white americans. sometimes in their teens, their 20s and the lost years are driving down life expectancy for black americans, and then finally we took a lo...