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The rate of firearm suicide in rural areas is 2.6 times the rate in urban areas.

Everytown Research analysis of CDC, WONDER, Provisional Mortality Statistics, Multiple Cause of Death, 2020–2024;  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. NCHS Urban-Rural Classification Scheme for Counties.

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