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Over the past decade, the firearm suicide rate among children and teens has increased by 21 percent.

Everytown Research analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, WONDER Online Database, Final Mortality Statistics, Underlying Cause of Death, 2015 and Provisional Mortality Statistics, Multiple Cause of Death, 2024 (accessed December 16, 2025). Rate percent change: 2015 vs. 2024. Ages: 0–19.

Last updated: 1.27.2026

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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