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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
But here are the facts on guns and deaths: Firearms were used to kill 30,143 people in the United States in 2005, the most recent year with complete data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.1 A total of 17,002 of these were suicides, 12,352 homicides, and 789 accidental firearm deaths
So more depressed people are shooting themselves than others
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Typically a country uses the standard murder rate versus some skewed stat like you just dug up. Our murder rate is much higher then other industrialized nations. Most murders are done with a gun.
And easy access to guns with no checks is not helped by pointing out that this easy access is allowing 17k people a year to kill themselves.