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by 0cf8612b2e1e 1111 days ago
>Guns… most of those are suicides, and that stat is uniquely American in terms of developed countries.

That seemed unbelievable to me, so I had to do some checking. The CDC[0] put 48k suicides in 2021, and attributed 55% to guns. Leaving us with 26.4k suicide gun deaths. While still a large number, there are still a significant portion of GP's 48k gun deaths which were not self inflected.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/suicide-data-statistics.html