[INST] Remove third-person words from the following sentence./nSomeone or something increased the rate of firearm deaths from 10.3 per 100,000 to 12 per 100,000 from 1999 to 2017. [/INST]  ###Response: Increased the rate of firearm deaths from 10.3 per 100,000 to 12 per 100,000 from 1999 to 2017.