Suicides in the US fell, pretty consistently, throughout the pandemic. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-03/u-s-suicides-fall-for-second-year-in-

Suicides in the US fell, pretty consistently, throughout the pandemic. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-03/u-s-suicides-fall-for-second-year-in-a-row-during-pandemic https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-03/u-s-suici... With a troubling outlier of suicides among young adults. So, no, that seems to just be your personal narrative and isn't supported by facts. That most gun deaths are suicide is pretty much irrelevant without a lot of other statistics. This could happen for many reasons. Maybe people aren't murdering each other with guns as much. Now it could be that the youth suicide rates are out weighing the adult suicide rates. But I suspect not, as despite this uptick, youth suicides are very rare.