"DGU" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2012 July 30, David Frum, “Do guns make us safer?”, in CNN:",
          "text": "Perhaps we should think of two acquaintances, both with some criminal history, getting into a drunken fight, both producing guns, one ending up dead or wounded, the other ending up as a “DGU” statistic – but both of them entangled in a scenario that would have produced only injuries if neither had carried a gun.",
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