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Suicide rates of teenage boys are skyrocketing because of firearm access

By Jennifer Gerson Suicide rates were 3.2 times higher for teenage boys than teen girls between 2018 and 2020 — with guns increasingly playing an outsize role. Boys and young men represent 80 percent of all youth suicide deaths, and 90 percent of all those who die by suicide using a firearm. “Few people know that the majority of gun […]