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Yeah I would be very interested in seeing what the statistics are without counting suicides as being "shot dead".

• CalChris 10y ago
  From the CDC, .326 * 33,599 or about 10,953 firearm homicide deaths in 2014: Firearm—In 2014, 33,599 persons died from firearm injuries in the United States (Tables 18 and 19), accounting for 16.8% of all injury deaths in that year. The age-adjusted death rate from firearm injuries (all intents) did not change significantly in 2014 from 2013. The two major component causes of firearm injury deaths in 2014 were suicide (63.5%) and homicide (32.6%). The age-adjusted death rate for firearm homicide decreased 2.8%, from 3.6 in 2013 to 3.5 in 2014. The rate for firearm suicide did not change. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr65/nvsr65_04.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr65/nvsr65_04.pdf You should understand that firearm-related injuries will be proportionately worse. Moreover, toddlers kill people at the rate of about 1 per week which is significantly greater than terrorism deaths except for 2001 (2908 with 9/11) and 1995 (171 with Oklahoma City). https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/14/people-are-getting-shot-by-toddlers-on-a-weekly-basis-this-year/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/14/peopl...