deaths by firearm

an interesting fact has emerged in light of the Supreme Court's recent ruling on Washington DC's handgun ban, according to CNN.com:

Suicides accounted for 55 percent of the nation's nearly 31,000 firearm deaths in 2005, the most recent year for which statistics are available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

I'm personally not comfortable with owning a gun, I try not to judge others who chose to do so, but it is alarming that most firearm deaths are self-inflicted.