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From: baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Congratulations to the NRA
Message-ID: <321@spar.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 10:55:51 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 12 10:55:51 1985
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Organization: Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, CA
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>    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. (In 1982)

More than half of the firearms deaths were *suicides*?  Interesting.
Can anyone else out there confirm this?

					Baba