a gun statistic you probably haven't heard.

The Rural Suicide Rate Is Driven by Men With Guns. 

"The reason that rural suicide rates are higher is because people in these areas are killing themselves with guns," lead author Paul Nestadt of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health said in announcing the findings. "The media focuses on homicides with guns, but only one in three deaths by firearms are homicides. The other two are suicides. Most of the other leading causes of death are going down. Suicides are going up—and firearms are a big reason why."