>> If you are experiencing
a mental health crisis, services are available
by calling the State's 988 Crisis Hotline.
Suicides are the number one cause
of death among adolescents
and the number one way people die by suicide is firearms.
As Marisa Wojcik reports, despite
the attention mass shootings
and homicides garner, suicide by guns far surpasses those.
>> The latest round of mass shooting headlines
in the United States has infused fear
into the average person
sending their kids to school,
attending a concert
or even going to get groceries.
But while the prevalence of mass shootings
has dramatically increased,
it still remains only a fraction
of the deaths caused by firearms.
Overall gun-related deaths in the U.S.
hit a record high in 2021, at 48,830 deaths.
42% were homicide.
Mass shootings accounted for roughly
1.4% of all gun deaths in 2021.
But suicide accounted
for more than half of all people
who died from a firearm at 54%
In Wisconsin, 678 people die from a gun
in an average year.
In 2020, 62% of firearm deaths in Wisconsin
were suicide.
And the rate of suicide by firearm
in the most rural counties is two times higher
than in the most urban counties.
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