Fact Sheet: Firearm Suicide in the United States
2023
This fact sheet from Everytown for Gun Safety provides key findings and recommendations about firearm suicide in the United States. Firearm suicide is a public health crisis in the US, as an estimated 25,000 Americans die by firearm suicide annually, including more than 3,100 young people. Nearly six out of ten gun deaths in the US are suicides, an average of 65 deaths per day. The fact sheet covers topics spanning access to guns, demographic patterns in firearm suicides, and trends. It offers recommendations for reducing the crisis through a multi-faceted approach that includes individual, community, and societal-level interventions, including building public awareness, encouraging secure firearm storage, limiting the easy and immediate acquisition of firearms, removing firearms from individuals in times of crisis, and instituting firearm purchase permits. Everytown for Gun Safety also provides additional resources about gun suicide.
Fact Sheet: Firearm Suicide in the United States
Source:
Firearm Suicide in the United States. Everytown for Gun Safety 2023. https://everytownresearch.org/report/firearm-suicide-in-the-united-states.