Non-combat firearm deaths, injuries soar

When you think military suicides also a lot higher, it is given this would also happen.

Non-combat firearm deaths, injuries soar
Army Times
By Patricia Kime
Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Oct 16, 2012
Outside of the war zone, active-duty troops are dying by firearms at a rate 62 percent higher than a decade ago and are injured by firearms at three times the rate they were in 2002, according to a Defense Department
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