54% of All Gun Related Deaths Were Suicides in 2020
| Claim: | 54% of All Gun Related Deaths Were Suicides in 2020 |
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| Finding: | According to Pew Research Center, a non-partisan DC think-tank, 54% of all gun related deaths were suicides in 2020. |
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According to Pew Research Center, a non-partisan DC think-tank, 54% of all gun related deaths were suicides in 2020.
Though they tend to get less public attention than gun-related murders, suicides have long accounted for the majority of U.S. gun deaths. In 2020, 54% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. were suicides (24,292), while 43% were murders (19,384), according to the CDC. The remaining gun deaths that year were unintentional (535), involved law enforcement (611) or had undetermined circumstances (400).
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