Suicide

Data

Suicides by Gun Have Steadily Climbed, Federal Data Shows

America’s suicide rate is rising, surging by nearly a third since the turn of the millennium. Within that public health crisis is an underlying problem: a jump in the number of people taking their own lives with firearms.

Data

19 Children Are Shot in America Every Day

A new study from the CDC offers a comprehensive analysis of the prevalence and patterns of firearm death and injury among children and teens.

Suicide

America’s Soldiers and Veterans Die By Suicide at Vexingly High Rates

What I learned about the risks of endless war, trauma, and guns while reporting on one general's headlong effort to save lives.

Longform

The General Who Went to War On Suicide

A commander with his own history of depression defied military norms to stop a rash of suicides on his base. It worked. So why did the Army abandon his approach?

Suicide

Gun Stores Hear a Bold Pitch at Top Firearms Trade Show: Suicide Prevention

The National Shooting Sports Foundation and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention used the 2017 SHOT Show to scale up their campaign to stop 10,000 deaths over the next decade.

Suicide

Suicide Experts Urge States to Tweak Background Check Laws to Account for Emergency Gun Transfers

A new paper argues that current policies can leave family members and friends unclear about how to legally remove a firearm from an individual in crisis.

Suicide

Why Is Nevada’s Suicide Rate So High?

People die from self-inflicted gunshot wounds more often than firearm ownership levels suggest they should.

Suicide

Why Do These New England States Have Starkly Different Suicide Rates?

In New Hampshire, twice as many people take their own lives than in Massachusetts.

Suicide

Seniors are Less Likely to Attempt Suicide Than Younger People But More Likely to Die When They Do

Guns are the reason why.

Suicide

I Shot Myself in the Head and Survived

Like most people who try to commit suicide, my attempt was impulsive. Because I used a gun, I should have died.

Suicide

5 Eye-Opening Reads on Guns and Suicide

Journalism that informed The Trace's thinking about how firearms make a leading public health crisis worse.

Gun Safety

Laws That Allow for Temporarily Removing Guns from High-Risk People Linked to a Reduction in Suicides

For every 10.5 guns collected under Connecticut’s gun violence restraining orders, one person was stopped from taking his or her own life, researchers estimate. Eleven states are considering similar policies.