>>>Message : I don't care about you or your irrational fear, however, I care very deeply when a group of people who share your irrational fear attempt to restrict my liberty and my life.
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>>900,000 people shot to death in the USA since 1980. The fear is not irrational - your thinking is.
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>Where do you get these figures. That's pure BS.... Are you trying to tell me that as many people are killed by guns as by autos? No way...
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>There's an average of 43,900 people killed every year in auto accidents, which are far more pravalent that shooting deaths, and that number extrapolates to 1,0009,700 deaths, since 1980.
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>The latest year for which detailed statistics are available - 2012 - there were 12,664 murders in the US. Of those, 8,583 were caused by firearms. That's 1/5 of the deaths by auto, and 66% of gun deaths are suicide. Do the math. Your figures are no where near accurate. So even giving you the benefit of doubt, if we take 20,000 as the figure over the last 30 years, that's 360,000, 1/3 of the number you quoted. Quit being a knee-jerk liberal and do some research..
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>http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jan/10/gun-crime-us-state
>http://premiumcomparisons.com/car-insurance-accident-statistics.php


OOOOk - here ya go. Do this math:


Typically, there are approximately 30,000 US deaths due to firearms in the US each year.

In 2007 according to the Centers for Disease Control Faststats and the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control WIQARS Leading Causes of Nonfatal Injury Reports:

48,676 people were intentionally shot who survived. (NCIPC)
18,610 people were unintentionally shot who survived. (NCIPC)
17,352 suicides (intentionally shot themselves who died) (CDC)
12,632 criminal firearm deaths (killed in a crime by guns) (CDC)
This does not include deaths of people intentionally or unintentionally shot for legal reasons (Like the police shooting a suspect).
The above total is 97270 people shot in the US in 2007. About a third (29984) died, and it is likely that the total number of Americans shot is at least 100,000 given that all types of gunshot injuries/deaths are not included.

In the US, every day during 2007, about 266 Americans were shot. Every day, a third of them (82 daily) died.