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I think that technically, depending on the context, if the words were "thirty-two were gunned down," that would be essentially correct since we don't generally consider suicide as someone "gunning" him/herself "down."
If the context was total deaths, the number thirty-two would be in error.
As we heard so many times here after Columbine, "(Paraphrasing) Fourteen were killed before the two gunmen took their own lives."
By the way, there was the same kind of controversy here when someone put up crosses on the hill in Clement Park next to the high school and included crosses for the shooters. As I recall (and it's a little fuzzy now) the additional two crosses were taken down -- or maybe all of them were.
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