Originally Posted By: dennydSo which is it?
10,thousand something deaths caused by firearms.
Or 40 something thousand deaths caused by firearms?
Anybody know for sure? 40 thousand sounds a bit rich. Wouldn't want to bring that to an argument.
In the last decade or two, we tend to have somewhere around 35,000 deaths per year in the US...fairly close to that per yer, total firearms deaths. Each year, somewhere around 55-60% of those are suicides. Only a tiny fraction are with "the a word" rifles....less than 5%. About 2/3 are with handguns. An example of statistics from Pew Research in 2017 (results vary by year, of course, and it seems the anti's numbers are always notably higher, and "figures lie, and liars figure" applies as you see fit):
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/08/16/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/
Interesting stats from this study is that the highest firearms death rate per capita is in rural states by and large, where it appears at a glance that suicides by firearm are similar in number to homidices by firearm. Unfortunately, this data does not tell numbers by locale, or I'm sure the homicides would show higher in the more populated areas, even on a per capita basis. I will research that a bit. Point is that most gun deaths per year in the US are suicides, mist if which are prob not preventable just by removing the gun from the equation. I know folks who had messed up lives, and ended it with a gun, a car and a tree, hanging, drugs, slow and painful with alcohol....heck, most of us do it with food....the hands-down #1 killer of humans in the US, yes, food. Abortion kills way more per year than guns, cars, etc., etc. combined. I could go on......
Point - they want people control, and trying to get at guns, is one way to do it.