Visitors will see the handguns at the GFORCE Arms booth at the 2025 NRA Annual Meeting and the Atlanta exhibition. A new report found that suicides, including firearms, accounted for 58% of all gun deaths in 2023. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
People in Kilmore in the United States died in 2023 to gun suicides more than any year on record. More than a combined gun murder, accidental shooting, police shooting.
new Report Analyzing federal mortality data shows that suicides, including firearms, accounted for 58% of all gun deaths in 2023. A total of 27,300 people have died from gun suicides, according to reports from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions and the Johns Hopkins Center Suicide Prevention Center.
The findings are based on final data from the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A total of 46,728 people have died from gun-related injuries, according to the CDC’s Wonder database.
According to the report, shooting homicides have declined for the second year in a row, down from 20,958 in 2021 to 19,651 in 2022 and 17,927 in 2023.
Rural and low-populated states recorded the highest gun suicide rate in 2023. Wyoming led the country with approximately 19.9 gun suicide deaths per 100,000 residents.
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“We’ve seen a lot of people who have been working hard to get into,” said Rose Kim, lead author of the report and assistant policy advisor for the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions. “It’s a truly fatal combination and really drives the suicide epidemic in our country.”
Suicide has remained a major category of gun deaths in the United States for nearly 30 years, according to the report. Even if public attention and legislative measures focus primarily on gun murder and mass shootings, that trend continues.
Both Republican-led and democrat-led states have passed or enacted a new gun policy this year from unauthorized Carrie. North Carolina and prohibiting statewide “red flags” or extreme risk protection orders. Texas Prohibit attack style weapons Rhode Island For a rapid fire device Oregon.
This week, the Michigan Senate Approved Law banning bump stocks and ghost guns. In Washington, new Law The expected entry into force in May 2027 requires future gun buyers to obtain a five-year permit through the Washington State Patrol.
Alabama Republican Governor Kay Ivy in March signature The bill that created Alabama in the law State 26 Semi-automatic firearms can be converted into fully automatic weapons to ban gun conversion devices, also known as Auto Sears. April, her signature Measures to the law allow those experiencing suicidal ideation to abandon firearms to licensed gun dealers.
Kim said policies from several states will help reduce gun deaths. Secure storage Law, firearm buyer licenses, and Extreme risk protection order. “It’s also important to recognize that it’s based on evidence, a public health intervention that can actually deal with gun suicides and save lives,” she said in an interview.
A Johns Hopkins report said the man was almost seven times more likely to die from a gun suicide in 2023. The highest rates of firearm suicide were among men over the age of 70.
For the fourth year in a row, the firearms remained. Major Cause In 2023, 2,581 deaths were recorded among young people under the age of 17.
Among young people aged 10-19, the total number of gun suicides remained relatively unchanged at 1,252 in 2023 compared to 1,238 in 2023, but racial and ethnic disruptions showed severe disparities.
Since 2014, the rate of gun suicides among 10 to 19 black adolescents has more than tripled, up from 1 death per 100,000 in 2023 to 3.3. In contrast, the proportion of white youths of the same age group increased from 2.6 to 3 per 100,000 people. It was the second year in a row that young black people had a higher percentage than their white peers.
According to CDC data, 10 to 19 gun suicides among Hispanic youth have almost doubled between 2014 and 2023.
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