Premature Death In The Demimonde

Most unsolved gun murders, and a substantial share of all murders, involved adolescent and young adult men, mostly non-white, in gangs in poverty stricken neighborhoods. Prostitutes, homeless people, alcoholics, drug addicts, people with traumatic brain injuries, severely mentally ill people with some particular mental illness like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and PTSD (often veterans), high school dropouts, runaways, foster children who have at some time been abused or neglected, people with juvenile delinquency or criminal records, disowned LGBT people, and disabled older men without any college education, are also particular vulnerable to premature death. And, of course, these categories have lots of overlap.

Targeting assistance these populations could greatly reduce premature deaths in the U.S., but there isn't the politically will to do so. Politicians and the public don't care much about people in this demimonde.