re: The people of Britain are freaking out about a 10 pound charge to visit doctor

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Yeah that sounds incorrect

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If only it was...

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Suicides by gun accounted for about six of every 10 firearm deaths in 2010 and just over half of all suicides, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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60% in 2010, so yeah I actually low balled it.

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Since the CDC began publishing data in 1981, gun suicides have outnumbered gun homicides. But as gun homicides have declined sharply in recent years, suicides have become a greater share of all firearm deaths: the 61% share in 2010 was the highest on record. That year there were 19,392 suicides by firearm compared to 11,078 homicides by gun

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Keep this in mind too after the next school shooting. When a Dem stands up to make an emotional appeal about the amount of gun violence occurring in America, the stats for gun deaths per year that they'll toss around includes suicides.