According to the Institute of Medicine (2013) (National Academy of Medicine, as of 2015), firearm suicides significantly outnumber firearm homicides for most age groups, accounting for approximately two-thirds of all firearm injury fatalities in the United States. Research indicates that the suicide method that is most available and socially acceptable will be used most often (Barber & Miller, 2014; Houtsma, Butterworth, & Anestis, 2018). Firearms were involved in fewer than half of the suicides reported by high- and upper-middle-income countries, except for the United States (Grinshteyn & Hemenway, 2016). In 2017, of the 47,214 suicides in the United States, 51 percent involved the use of a firearm (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for...
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