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Rates of people who die by gun suicide are highest in the South and lowest in the Northeast.

Source: Everytown analysis of CDC NVSS city firearm suicide data, 2016–2020. Analysis features 752 cities.

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Every day, nearly 130 people in the United States are killed with guns, twice as many are shot and wounded, and countless others are impacted by acts of gun violence.

Everytown Research analysis of CDC, WONDER, Provisional Mortality Statistics, Multiple Cause of Death, 2020–2024; Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project nonfatal firearm injury data, 2020; and SurveyUSA, Market Research Study #26602, 2022.

Last updated: 1.15.2026