3,400
Nearly 3,400 young people die by firearm suicide each year.
Everytown Research analysis of CDC, WONDER, Underlying Cause of Death, Five-year average: 2018–2022. Ages 10–24.
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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.
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The rate of firearm suicide among young people has increased 44 percent in the past decade.
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18
In 2023 someone was shot and injured or killed in a road rage incident on average every 18 hours.
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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.
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