Midknight Review -- new and revised: Gun numbers that will surprise you: Turns out that homicides by gunfire are less than one half of one percent.

Gun numbers that will surprise you: Turns out that homicides by gunfire are less than one half of one percent.

Conclusion: Only four tenths of one percent of America's annual death total, is the result of preventable, homicide/gun fire . . . . . hardly a national emergency.

In 2013, the latest year for which we have a comprehensive review, there were a total of 33,636 deaths due to "injury by firearms." Here is the breakdown, and these numbers will not support the arguments coming from the anti-gun lobby.

Of the 33, 636 deaths, 21,175 were the result of suicide . . .. not "mass murder."

And additional 11,208 were homicides (approximately half of this number is the result of gangland killings).

505 deaths due to accidental or negligent discharge of a firearm,

281 deaths due to firearms use with "undetermined intent" (including "mass murder"- such as family gatherings, weddings, school shootings).

Of the 2,596,993 total deaths in the US in 2013, only 1.3% were related to firearms.
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Source: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_02.pdf

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AnonymousJune 14, 2017 at 10:55 PM
67% of all homicides in the U.S. were committed using a firearm.
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