The majority of US gun deaths are suicides. Here’s how to prevent them

‘There’s this myth that suicide is this carefully considered thing.’ Photograph: adl21/Getty Images

In 2022, the number of US gun suicides reached an all-time high: 73 people dying by gun suicide every day, or a total of nearly 27,000 deaths that year.

Despite years of intense debate over gun violence in the US, this central fact still receives little attention: the majority of the country’s gun deaths are suicides, not homicides.