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To: SeekAndFind

“Since the CDC began publishing data in 1981, gun suicides have outnumbered gun homicides. But as gun homicides have declined sharply in recent years, suicides have become a greater share of all firearm deaths: the 61% share in 2010 was the highest on record. That year there were 19,392 suicides by firearm compared to 11,078 homicides by gun (35% of all firearm deaths). The rest were accidents, police shootings and unknown causes.”

PEW RESEARCH CENTER

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/05/24/suicides-account-for-most-gun-deaths/


82 posted on 07/17/2013 12:54:01 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Notice how any other death at the hands of another human is a homicide, but police shootings are counted outside that number.


87 posted on 07/17/2013 1:09:27 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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