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Local September 16, 2013 | 8:19 am

12,793 murders make guns the country’s main instrument of death

Santo Domingo.- Guns have in the last eight years, an average of 133 people per month, while gunshots account for six of every 10 people who die violently, making firearms Dominican Republic’s main instrument of death.

The use of guns significantly increase fatalities, for which sectors favor a general disarmament as a way to cut the violence considered alarming.

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