They’re an ever-growing crisis, often underreported and overlooked because they involve a topic – killing oneself – the news ...

The author says one study reports the mortality rate in U.S. is 9.5 times higher than Canada, which has the second-highest ...

The number of mass shooting incidents in the U.S. has been steadily falling since 2023, when it hit a 10-year high.

More people in the United States died by gun suicide in 2023 than any year on record — more than by gun homicide, accidental ...

According to the AMA report, our state has among the half-dozen worst pediatric firearms death rates nationally since the ...

"Gun death rates doubled from 2013 to 2022 for children and teens (ages 1–17)," according to the report. "In 2022, nearly three times as many teens (ages 10–17) died by gun homicide compared ...

From the research of Professor John Lott, at the University of Chicago, a noted expert on gun laws and statistics: There are 30,000 gun-related deaths per year. The U.S. population was 324,059,091 ...

Violent deaths by firearm, 2020: 1.8 per 100,000 people (total: 321) Civilian-owned firearms: Approx. 2.4 per 100 people – 167th most of 230 countries (total: 402,000) GDP per capita, 2022 ...

El Salvador, No. 17, has the highest rate of interpersonal violent firearm deaths, per 100,000 people, followed by No. 6, Venezuela and No. 8, Guatemala.

Gun deaths in the U.S. reached a record-high in 2021, with an average of one person dying every 11 minutes each day — a total of nearly 49,000 deaths from gun violence throughout the year ...

Guns killed 1,315 Alabamians in 2021. The state, with a population of 5 million, had 26.4 firearm deaths per 100,000 people that year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.