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From: shallit@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Jeff Shallit)
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Subject: Congratulations to the NRA
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Date: Tue, 11-Jun-85 16:25:40 EDT
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Chicago Tribune; June 9, 1985
"Guns closing in on autos as No. 1 cause of death"

by Ronald Kotulak

   Every day in America 38 people are murdered with guns, 45 use guns to
commit suicide, and five are accidentally killed by guns.

   New statistics compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics
show that in 1982 firearms of all kinds killed almost 33,000 Americans.

   The hail of bullets was responsible for 16,575 suicides, 13,841 murders,
1,756 accidental deaths, 540 undetermined deaths and 276 killing by
law enforcement agents.

   "Firearms are the second leading cause of death in the United States
for ages 15-34, with motor vehicles in first place and cancer a distant
third," said Susan P. Baker, a professor in the department of health
policy at Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.

   For people in the 30-54 age group, the rate of firearms deaths is even
worse, tying with motor vehicle accidents for first palce, she reported
in the American Journal of Public Health.

   "As with deaths from other causes, the risk of death from firearms is
not equally shared by the population