Month: July 2024
This edition of our Gun Death Series focuses on homicides. Similar to suicides, the degree to which guns exist in a community are strongly correlated with the rate of homicide deaths. The states with the highest proportion of household gun ownership have a 78% higher rate of firearm homicides than the states in the lowest quartile of household gun ownership.
- Keywords: Gun Ownership Homicide
This edition continues our summer series on gun deaths, focusing on suicides. Suicide rates vary considerably by state, and these slides demonstrate that the variation across states is very highly correlated with household gun ownership rates. The firearm suicide rate in the cohort of states with the highest gun ownership was 2.7 times above the firearm suicide rate in the state group with the lowest rates of household gun ownership.
- Keywords: Gun Ownership Suicide
This is the first edition of a new prong of our 5 Slide Series focusing on household gun ownership and its role in suicide and homicide deaths.
- Keywords: Gun Ownership Homicide Suicide