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Some interesting facts about gun ownership in America:

>Women gun owners are 4 times more likely to die from gun violence as non gun owning women. These are the best survival odds among gun owners.

>Children are 9 times more likely to die in a gun accident and 13 times more likely to be shot and killed in America than in any other developed nation.

>Overall, gun owners are 5 times more likely to die from gun violence than non gun owners.

>65% of victims of firearm homicides lived in a home where one or more guns were kept.

>Gun owners are 43 times more likely to shoot and kill their own family member as they are to shoot and kill an intruder.

>Homes with guns are 37 times more likely to have a successful suicide attempt.

>Firearms were used in 69 percent of the nation’s murders, 40 percent of robberies, and 21.6 percent of aggravated assaults (weapons data is not collected on rape incidents).

>Less than 1.4% of firearm deaths are deemed justifiable self defense, including shootings by police. Less than 0.5% of firearm deaths are of an intruder.

>Over 70% of hand gun deaths occurred in the home where the handgun was kept.

>Every day 86 Americans are killed by guns.

>Firearm murders outnumber all other methods of murder combined by over 2 to 1.

These stats are derived from the American Journal of Epidemiology, the CDC and the FBI.