[OttawaFreeper]

It would not surprise me that once you take out the black on black firearms homicides, this number goes down to about the level of Switzerland’s.

[LouAvul]

From my files:

Less than 93 people a day- There are 30,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms, and this number is not disputed.

0.000000925% of the population dies from gun related actions each year. Statistically speaking, this is insignificant!

What is never told, however, is a breakdown of those 30,000 deaths, to put them in perspective as compared to other causes of death:
• 65% of those deaths are by suicide which would never be prevented by gun laws
• 15% are by law enforcement in the line of duty and justified
• 17% are through criminal activity, gang and drug related or mentally ill persons – gun violence
• 3% are accidental discharge deaths

So technically, "gun violence" is not 30,000 annually, but drops to 5,100. Still too many? Well, first, how are those deaths spanned across the nation?

480 homicides (9.4%) were in Chicago

344 homicides (6.7%) were in Baltimore

333 homicides (6.5%) were in Detroit

119 homicides (2.3%) were in Washington D.C. (a 54% increase over prior years)

So basically, 25% of all gun crime happens in just 4 cities. All 4 of those cities have strict gun laws, so it is not the lack of law that is the root cause.

This basically leaves 3,825 for the entire rest of the nation, or about 75 deaths per state. That is an average because some States have much higher rates than others. For example, California had 1,169 and Alabama had 1.

[Joe Brower]

It would not surprise me that once you take out the black on black firearms homicides, this number goes down to about the level of Switzerland’s.

Exactly so. All of which is conveniently left out of this so-called "report".

All these POC piling themselves up like cordwood -- so let's blame whitey.