Nearly one in five adults in the US say they have a relative who was killed by a gun, a disturbing new study revealed Tuesday.
The troubling statistic included death by suicide, according to the report from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
A similar amount – 21 percent – of respondents said they had been personally threatened with a gun.
The study also found that people of color were disproportionately impacted by gun violence, with three in 10 black adults and one-fifth of Hispanic respondents saying they have witnessed someone being shot.
Thirty-four percent of black adults reported having a family member who was killed by a firearm, or two times the share of white adults who said the same.
Black and Hispanic adults were also a little more than three times as likely to say they worried daily or almost daily about family members becoming victims of gun violence.
Despite these concerns, the study found that 41 percent of participants said they lived in a household with guns. Of these respondents, 75 percent said their firearms were stored either unlocked, loaded, or alongside ammunition.
The Kaiser Family Foundation study comes amid a spate of mass shootings in the US.
On Monday, five people were killed when a former employee opened fire at Old National Bank in Louisville. Two weeks earlier, six people – including three children – were murdered by a former student at Nashville’s Covenant School.