The statistics below and to the right are occasionally compiled. I carried one such list on a card in my wallet for a decade. The numbers ebb and flow year-to-year, but their position on the causes of death list rarely move much.
There are 32,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms. The U.S. population is 324,000,000.
Thus: 0.00987% of the population dies from gun related actions each year.
-80% are through criminal activity, gang and drug-trade related This is one cost of “our” war on non-prescription drugs.
-60% of those deaths are by suicide A similar […]