There's also another dimension to this - reports tend to focus on gun related _death_ but ignores injuries where the victim survived. This chart - http://asset

There's also another dimension to this - reports tend to focus on gun related _death_ but ignores injuries where the victim survived. This chart - http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2015/04/gun_gray.jpg http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2015/04/gun_gray.jpg - from http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/04/true-cost-of-gun-violence-in-america/ http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/04/true-cost-of-gun... suggests the total number of gun related injuries + deaths in 2012 was ~120,000