USA Today (7/27, Hauck) reports, “Gun suicides reached an all-time high in the United States in 2022, and the gun suicide rate among Black teens surpassed that of white teens for the first time on record,” according to “newly-released provisional data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed by the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions in Baltimore.” In addition, guns “remained the leading cause of death for children and teens, marking the fifth straight year that firearms have claimed the lives of more minors than any other cause, including car crashes and cancer.” The provision data are “based on information from death certificates.”
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— “‘A hidden epidemic’: Gun suicides reached an all-time high in the US in 2022,”Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, July 27, 2023