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More people in America kill themselves with guns than other people

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Michelle Cottle flags up a fascinating stat, 55 percent of the 30,000 plus firearms deaths in America in 2005 were suicides. I would have thought that murders would have made up the vast majority of these deaths but homicides only actually accounted for 40 percent of the total.

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