For every completed suicide, it is estimated that as many as 25 suicide attempts are made. Six out of 10 suicides are completed by firearm.
Males are three to five times more likely to complete suicide than females.
Females attempt suicide three times more often than males. Whites and Native Americans are almost twice as likely to complete suicide than blacks and persons of other races. In the past three decades, the suicide rate among teenagers 15-19 years of age has tripled. A potentially suicidal adolescent's risk of actually committing suicide increases 75-fold if there is a gun in the home. Of persons who commit suicide with firearms, more than two-thirds use a handgun.