Rural communities suffer the greatest economic harm from gun violence, according to the report.
States like Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and West Virginia, which have substantial rural populations, were found to incur the highest economic toll of gun violence when measured as a share of their individual economies.
The economic toll of gun violence is calculated based on a variety of factors, including lost earnings, costs to a victim's employer, health care costs and the associated law enforcement expenditures. All of these metrics have a direct or indirect impact on a state's economic productivity. The number of firearm suicides has steadily increased over the last decade. In 2017, the most recent year for which the CDC has complete data, there were 23,854 gun suicides. In 2009, that number was 18,735.
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