Mental Health Update | Sharp Rise in Suicides by Gun among American children
American children died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds at a sharply higher rate in 2014 than seven years earlier...
according to a recent study, which said that the safe storage of firearms could make a big difference in preventing youth suicides.
Among children and teens aged 17 or younger, 1.6 per 100,000 killed themselves with guns in 2014, compared with 1.0 per 100,000 in 2007.