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These are fairly widely known stats. But I'll give you some links:
A gun in the home is 22 times more likely to be used in an unintentional shooting, than to be used to injure or kill in self-defense.
A gun in the home is 22 times more likely to be used in an unintentional shooting, a criminal assault or homicide, or an attempted or completed suicide than to be used to injure or kill in self-defense.
Journal of Trauma, 1998
Stop Handgun Violence: The Facts
The largest category of firearms fatality is suicide, not homicide. In 1997, 54 percent of all gun deaths were suicides, and 42 percent were homicides.16
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Self Defense
For every time a gun in the home is used in a self-defense homicide, a gun will be used in�
1.3 unintentional deaths
4.6 criminal homicides
37 suicides22
VPC - Handgun Ban Fact Sheet
In 2007, there were 613 fatal firearm accidents in the United States, constituting 0.5% of 123,706 fatal accidents that year.[120]
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In 2007, there were roughly 15,698 emergency room visits for non-fatal firearm accidents . . . .
Gun Control
The last one, though hardly a non-biased site, clearly shows over 16,000 people shot themselves in 2007.
not that crap again which counts as a gun in the house one that a home invader brings into the house
VPC-the most anti gun lie filled hack site going