With all the press murders get its easy to forget that most gun deaths are suicides:
... Far more people kill themselves with a firearm each year than are murdered with one. In 2010 in the U.S., 19,392 people committed suicide with guns, compared with 11,078 who were killed by others. ...
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine-features/guns-and-suicide-the-hidden-toll/
... Far more people kill themselves with a firearm each year than are murdered with one. In 2010 in the U.S., 19,392 people committed suicide with guns, compared with 11,078 who were killed by others. ...
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine-features/guns-and-suicide-the-hidden-toll/