Meanwhile...[1] Homicides from firearms aren't even close to the largest cause of death. More people kill themselves with firearms than they kill others (19k vs

Meanwhile...[1] Homicides from firearms aren't even close to the largest cause of death. More people kill themselves with firearms than they kill others (19k vs 11k--I'm not sure where that wiki page is getting its numbers since their own citation matches mine[2]). We also have 5k unspecified or non-firearm-related homicides. Across the whole world, about 1.8 people die per second, 14k is about 2 hours, spread across an entire year. All this is why 14k is a handful relative to other causes of death. [1] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lcod.htm http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lcod.htm [2] http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/10LCID_Violence_Related_Injury_Deaths_2010-a.pdf http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/10LCID_Violence_Relate...