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To: HwyChile
"...more often than not they harm the people carrying them."

So 51% of all gunshot injuries are self-inflicted or "return fire"?

99 posted on 07/01/2008 11:36:16 AM PDT by weegee (CHANGE? A more truthful slogan would be to proclaim Obama the candidate of FLIP FLOP.)
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To: weegee

>So 51% of all gunshot injuries are self-inflicted or “return fire”?<

Over the five years ending in 1997, the Justice Department says, there was an average of 36,000 firearms-related deaths a year. (Fifty-one percent were suicides, and 44 percent homicides.)


127 posted on 07/01/2008 11:58:05 AM PDT by B4Ranch (Having custody of a loaded weapon does not arm you. The skill to use the weapon is what arms a man.)
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