An increase in suicides drove the total number of U.S. gun-related fatalities to the highest level ever recorded in 2017.
According to the Center for Disease Control’s Wide-randing Online Data for Epidemiologic Research database, 39,773 people died from gun-related violence in 2017. That’s up from the prior record of 39,595 deaths set in 1993.
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