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Data
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
What I learned about the risks of endless war, trauma, and guns while reporting on one general's headlong effort to save lives.
Longform
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?
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.
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.
People die from self-inflicted gunshot wounds more often than firearm ownership levels suggest they should.
In New Hampshire, twice as many people take their own lives than in Massachusetts.
Guns are the reason why.
Commentary
Like most people who try to commit suicide, my attempt was impulsive. Because I used a gun, I should have died.
Journalism that informed The Trace's thinking about how firearms make a leading public health crisis worse.
Gun Safety
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.
More than two-thirds of all gun deaths are self-inflicted.
Here’s why that might be a huge development.
Campus Carry
A combination of vulnerable young people and the lethality of firearms has experts worried.
Armed With Reason
The conclusion that greater access to guns results in more suicides is nearly unanimous.
