The Bloomberg School releases 2023 gun statistics, and once again the most passionate gunny isn’t the bad boy blasting away in the bar, but the quiet little depressive barely visible over there in the corner, gently cocking his Glock.
For the third straight year, gun suicides reached a new high: 27,300, or 58% of all gun deaths, were suicides. And more than half of all suicides in 2023 involved a gun... “Suicide is a growing crisis in the U.S. and guns are driving that crisis,” says study lead author Rose Kim, MPA, assistant policy advisor at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions... [R]apid increases in gun suicides among some groups align with increased gun ownership rates that began in 2020...
That’s why our suicidiest states are all the ones with the most guns: Wyoming, Montana, Alaska. “Wyoming led the nation with about 19.9 gun suicide deaths per 100,000 residents – nearly 10 times the rate of Massachusetts, which had the lowest at about 2.1 per 100,000.”
Asked about his way-gunny state’s very high suicide rate, the Oklahoma state GOP chair responds: “Everyone dies. That’s life.”