Gun deaths fact
Author: adminYahoo! News - There was a research recently conducted that displayed a pretty alarming fact: more than half of gun deaths are suicides. Surprisingly, gun owners use their weapons on themselves.
Back in 2005, 55 percent of the nation’s nearly 31,000 gun deaths were tallied. Furthermore, there was nothing unique about this number. Why? Because gun related suicides have outnumbered homicides for 20 of the last 25 years.
By using guns as a suicide method, it has a 90 percent success rate. Jumping from high places only has a 34 percent success rate and drug overdose only has 2 percent success rate. Other methods are not as lethal as a gunfire.
If a person has a handgun at home, that he could possibly use for self defense, then he has a handgun that he can also use to commit suicide or cause domestic violence.
