Guns Kill Children The overwhelming evidence that pediatricians are right and the NRA is wrong.

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66. There are few reliable statistics on defensive gun uses but firearms are often used ...

for legitimate self defense.

CDC Gun Violence Study's Findings Not What Obama Wanted
Posted 08/21/2013 06:43 PM ET

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"Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals," says the report, which was completed in June and ignored in the mainstream press.

The study, which was farmed out by the CDC to the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council, also revealed that while there were "about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008," the estimated number of defensive uses of guns ranges "from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year."

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Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies."
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/082113-668335-cdc-gun-violence-study-goes-against-media-narrative.htm

It is also true that people do get killed with their own firearm.

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.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/05/24/suicides-account-for-most-gun-deaths/

Of course there are many ways to commit suicide if a person wants to kill themselves.

The primary reason the universal background check failed in Congress was that the gun control advocates overreached and tried to push another assault weapons ban through. It is possible that it may pass after the midterm elections if the gun control advocates ban the use of the word "ban."