Uses of guns in the US, 1st place is "suicide" in Dantotsu

Although it is a gun society, unlike Japan, it is a statistic result that it is not as a tool for self defense to protect itself from crime, but a lot of cases are used to harm myself is.

Details are as below.Half of US Gun Deaths are Suicides - TIME

According to TIME, the most recent 2005 statistical data released by the Center for Epidemic Management and Prevention has reported that 55% of the deaths from about 31 thousand guns are suicide. Other gun deaths account for 40% of homicide, 3% accident, 2% legal killings such as shooting by police officers. This is not a phenomenon only in 2005, but the situation that the death of the gun is more suicide than the murder or accident has been continued for a long time.

Public health researchers have concluded that there is a high possibility of death by suicide or homicide at the house where the gun is located, but Gary Kleck studying criminal science at the University of Florida has more than one million cases each year It is claiming that the incident is being prevented by the gun.

The success rate of suicide by gun is 90% or more, 34% when jumping down, 2% with mass intake of medicine, "It can not be said that methods other than guns can not be deadly", research on guns Jon Vernick, the administrator on Johns Hopkins Center, said that if there is a place where the gun ownership ban is lifted, it is necessary to study the reasons for increasing suicide and murder.