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300 Million people were not shot today.

There are about 300 Million firearms in the US and 11,000 gun deaths (non-suicides) each year.

What’s not known is how many are gang-bangers, police shootings, justifiable homicides, citizens protecting themselves from crime, etc...

About 2,000 of those gun deaths occur in a few cities such as Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, NOLA, Oakland and a few other cities that have been run by Dems for the last 40+ years.

0.999999% of guns were used inappropriately. I would say that 0.999999% is a pretty good safety record.

And let’s not forget the recent CDC survey that Obama had buried showed that up to 3 million self-defense gun uses occur each year by citizens.

Stuff it, you Nancy boy Brits! It’s not NRA members shooting people. It’s a societal issue and blaming guns is an intellectually lazy argument made by intellectually lazy people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLaRR9yVxC4

My own guess is that there are more than 300 million firearms in the United States. Guns don't wear out nearly as quickly as cars and appliances and a 100-year old 1911 Colt should function much the same as as a 1911 Colt manufactured in 1914. My guess is the total is about 450 million, and my guess could be as good as anyone else.

One reason that the numbers seem large is that the United States is a very large country, compared to other large G8 economically developed countries. We have more than five times the population of the UK. (We're not even highest of the G8, Russia has a murder rate more than twice that if the US.)

According to US gov't statistics, 440,000 die because of smoking each year. http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_facts/

An estimated 300,000 deaths per year may be attributable to obesity. http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/calls/obesity/fact_consequences.html

There have been an average of 3,533 fatal unintentional drownings (non-boating related) annually in the United States — about ten deaths per day.http://www.cdc.gov/homeandrecreationalsafety/water-safety/waterinjuries-factsheet.html

A swimming pool is much more dangerous to a child than a gun.http://freakonomics.com/2006/04/16/are-you-ready-for-swimming-pool-season/>http://freakonomics.com/2006/04/16/are-you-ready-for-swimming-pool-season/

As the number of firearms has been increasing in the US, the number of firearm-related homicides has been falling. http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8

The majority of firearm homicide victims are black males living in urban areas.http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide