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Re:I Built This AK-47. It's Legal and Totally Untraceable by lifeguard on Saturday May 25, 2013 @03:46PM (#5768574)
31k gun deaths in 2010

http://webappa.cdc.gov/cgi-bin/broker.exe

On average, 33 gun homicides were committed each day for the years 2005-2010 -- WISQARS Injury Mortality Reports, 1999-2010

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Re:I Built This AK-47. It's Legal and Totally Untraceable by ctdonath on Saturday May 25, 2013 @06:47PM (#5769163)
Operative word: "accidental".

Deliberate murders involving guns outnumber accidental killings some 36 to 1.

Note however that accidental automotive killings outnumber deliberate willful homicides using firearms. Odd that somehow the former garners little public concern.

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Re:I Built This AK-47. It's Legal and Totally Untraceable by lifeguard on Saturday May 25, 2013 @03:48PM (#5768579)
On average, 49 gun suicides were committed each day for the years 2005-2010 (WISQARS)
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Re:I Built This AK-47. It's Legal and Totally Untraceable by lifeguard on Saturday May 25, 2013 @03:49PM (#5768585)
It takes a cold dead hand to earn profit from firearms in America.
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