↑44%
The rate of firearm suicide among young people has increased 44 percent in the past decade.
Everytown Research analysis of CDC, WONDER, Underlying Cause of Death. Rate percentage change: 2013 vs. 2022. Ages 10–24.
More Stats
73M
An estimated 73 million guns were sold in the US from 2020 to 2023—a 29 percent increase compared to the previous four years.
stat
3,400
Nearly 3,400 young people die by firearm suicide each year.
stat
18
In 2023 someone was shot and injured or killed in a road rage incident on average every 18 hours.
stat
3/10
More than three in 10 Latina homicides are committed by an intimate partner, and a firearm is used in more than half of these deaths.
stat