“From 2000-2014, there were 274,819 suicides, while there were 172,688 homicides.”
Matt Chambers, an infographics specialist in South Carolina, illustrates a little-known fact in the series of charts –that suicides comprise the majority of gun deaths in the U.S.
His work also illustrates the facts that states with “below average” populations have the highest percentage of suicides by gun, and that the majority of those deaths occur in the West and the South. View infographic