Firearm deaths down in 2024 but gun suicides hit record high

Firearm deaths decreased by 5% from 2023 to 2024 in the U.S., although such mortalities remain high, with one occurring every 12 minutes, a report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions shows. Rose Kim, MPA, an assistant policy advisor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told Healio that the decrease is encouraging but “nearly 45,000 Americans died of