>http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=gun-science-proves-arming-untrained-citizens-bad-idea
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>Of course, any kind of science or common sense will be rejected by the extremist right wingers.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 31,672 people died by guns in 2010 (the most recent year for which U.S. figures are available), a staggering number that is orders of magnitude higher than that of comparable Western democracies. What can we do about it?

There was a lot of interesting info to come out of the recent CDC survey of studies, some of which I posted yesterday. See Message#1581067

As to this piece, I find this interesting.
Of those 31,672 dead, 61 percent were suicides, and the vast majority of the rest were homicides by people who knew one another.

Not the stat itself, but the fact that it was actually highlighted. It's typical that suicides are lumped together as "gun deaths" and not put in context. The context changes everything.