A new Everytown for Gun Safety report brings chilling news about Intimate Partner Homicide-Suicide: From 2014 to 2020, more than 5,450 women were killed by an intimate partner. In one in three of these instances, the perpetrator then died by suicide themself. A firearm was used in 85 percent of all incidents of IPHS, killing nearly 1,600 women. Such incidents make up nearly one in five of all gun homicides of women during this period.
“The lethality and accessibility of firearms give abusers in suicidal crisis the ability to overpower and harm multiple people with little chance for intervention or survival,” the report says.