@#40 ... I think it's about 60-65% suicides, then homicides, then accidents. ...
Looks about right.
What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/03/05/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-us/
... What share of U.S. gun deaths are murders? What share are suicides?
[2023 data]
A pie chart showing that suicides accounted for nearly 6 in 10 U.S. gun deaths in 2023.
Though they tend to get less public attention than gun-related murders, suicides have long accounted for the majority of U.S. gun deaths.
In 2023, 58% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. were suicides (27,300), while 38% were murders (17,927). The remaining gun deaths that year involved law enforcement (604), were accidental (463) or had undetermined circumstances (434), according to CDC data. ...
