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Do states with fewer gun laws and more guns have higher suicide rates?

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A KFF analysis of CDC data divided the states equally into three groups — those with the most, moderate, and the fewest firearm law provisions — and found that states with the fewest gun law provisions had twice the gun suicide rate of states with the most, at a rate of 10.8 per 100,000 people.

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