And this number will be often quoted by liberal wacktards and the number per year killed in the United States by criminals.
Love these spin misleading reports by anti-gunners.
Wanna bet that those in the hands of "civilians" were a very small part of that, and most of those were criminals. The majority of the 450K, would likely be "security forces", IOW, government goons.
This is why the founders put the Second Amendment into the Bill of Rights. For use against "government Goons", someone elses or our own. Of course now we've added "UN Goons" and "Mussleman" terrorists to the list of reasons for the "right of the people" to be exercised.