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This is an extremely common fallacy.  Notice what the words say:  "Suicides are three times more likely than KILLING in self defense." 

The fallacy is this:  you don't have to KILL your attacker to defend yourself.  Statistically, only 0.1 % (that's 1/10th of 1%) of defensive uses of a gun result in the attacker being killed. 

That means that 99.9% of defensive uses of a gun are not figured into your statement. 

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