Gun deaths in the United States hit a record high in the first year of the pandemic. Now a new report shows they climbed even higher in 2021.
Homicides and mass shootings typically dominate the headlines. But the majority of these fatal shootings — both nationally and in Utah — were suicides, shows a new analysisIts authors noted that many believed the numbers would dip afterNationally, more than 26,000 people used guns to take their own lives in 2021. And in Utah, gun deaths are overwhelmingly suicides, accounting for 364 out of 450 fatal shootings in 2021, according to the report.from that year, the most recent available.
In Utah, those with a gun at home are more likely to use the weapon in an attempt on their own lives than they are to shoot someone else, Michael Staley with the Medical Examiner's Office said. "What we're ultimately trying to do is put time and distance between them and that really lethal mechanism," Staley said, "so that they have a chance to tell somebody how they're feeling so that they have a chance to get help, and because we know treatment works."
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