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By the Numbers: Veterans and Firearms Injury

By ACEP Now | on January 21, 2020 | 1 Comment
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  • Every day, 17 veterans die from suicide (source)
  • Veterans have 50% higher risk of suicide than other Americans (source)
  • 33%: Increase in veteran firearm suicide rate in the past decade (23% for non-veterans) (source, source)
  • The West has the highest rate of veteran firearm suicides, followed closely by the South (source)
  • Firearms suicide fatality rate: 85% (5% with other methods) (source, source)
  • Gun ownership increases the risk of suicide 3x (source, source)
  • 45% of veterans own guns (20% of non-veterans) (source)
  • In one study, 93% of veterans think the VA should offer voluntary ways for at-risk veterans to reduce their access to firearms (source)

Compiled by Andrea Austin and Megan Ranney, MD, MPH, for AFFIRM Research (www.affirmresearch.org).

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One Response to “By the Numbers: Veterans and Firearms Injury”

  1. February 9, 2020

    Timothy Carswell Reply

    These numbers are misleading. For example, the last thing says, “93% of veterans” which is not what the study say, it says veterans in “mental health treatment”, not “of ALL veterans”.

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