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More than 90 percent of suicide attempts using guns are successful, while the success rate for jumping from high places was 34 percent. The success rate for drug overdose was 2 percent, the brief said, citing studies.
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Guns are good at one thing, that's for sure.
Guns are a complex issue, many pros and cons.
All it took was one nut threatening me and my wife to push me into gun ownership.
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Gary Kleck, a researcher at Florida State University's College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, estimates there are more than 1 million incidents each year in which firearms are used to prevent an actual or threatened criminal attack.
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the nation's nearly 31,000 firearm deaths in 2005
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31,000/1,000,000 x 100 = 3.1%