Actually, I'll buy this figure. Of course, I'd say about 18,000 of these are gang-banging thugs shooting each other and gang-banging thugs getting shot by the police, thus not really causing me to lose sleep in anguish over the "gun-epidemic" in America. IIRC, about half of the total is suicides. I don't have the source in front of me, I'll post it later if I get the chance.
IIRC, about half of the total is suicides.You could be right, but if we've got 10,000 people a year shooting themselves, then we've got a real problem on our hands and it ain't guns.