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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1475751" data-attributes="member: 1"><a href="http://www.futurity.org/gun-deaths-suicides-homicides-822392/" target="_blank">64% of gun deaths in U.S. are suicides - Futurity</a>“Suicide by firearm is far more common than homicide,” says Garen J. Wintemute, professor of emergency medicine and director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at University of Caliornia, Davis.“Over the past 30 years, firearm suicides have exceeded homicides even when homicide rates were at their highest in the late 1980s and early 1990s. But, since 2006, the gap between the two has been widening, with firearm homicides decreasing and suicides increasing.”</blockquote>