HealthDay (6/27, Thompson) reported a new report from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that “about 27,300 gun-related deaths – 58% of all gun deaths – were suicides in 2023.” This means “gun-related suicides in the U.S. reached record highs for the third straight year.” Researchers noted that firearm-related suicide rates “were higher in rural regions (63%) than in large metropolitan areas (50%).” Furthermore, “men were 7 times more likely than women to kill themselves with a gun,” and “the gun suicide rate among men 70 and older was by far the highest.” The report also found that “the firearm suicide rate among Black youth 10 to 19 more than tripled and among Hispanic youth more than doubled during the past decade.” To reverse this, researchers “recommended the adoption of policies to prevent children’s access to guns, restrict the ability to purchase guns quickly, and make it easier to take firearms away from people at a higher risk for violence.” (SOURCE: APA Headlines)