[mathurine]

I wonder where the figure 30,000 per year killed by guns comes from.

[Slapshot68]

“I wonder where the figure 30,000 per year killed by guns comes from.”

Same place where the “US killed 1,000,000 Iraqi civilians” came from?

[bert]

.....I wonder where the figure 30,000 per year killed by guns comes from.....

Detroit, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Washington, Atlanta, Cleveland, Buffalo, Newark ad infinitum. The number is largely feral urban criminals

[wideawake]

See post 32.

According to the FBI's statistics, of the USA's approximately 15-16,000 homicides per year, 67% are committed with a firearm.

Of America's approximately 32,000 suicides each year, 80% are men of whom 60% use a firearm and 20% are women of whom 30% use a firearm.

There are also some accidental deaths due to firearms each year as well as a a number of killings in self-defense.

The figure is roughly 30,000 - what is misleading is not the number in the editorial but the description of the circumstances.

[navyguy]

Their 30,000 number is basically correct. What they fail to mention is that on average 55% of those deaths are suicides. They leave that part out in order to give the impression that we live in the Wild West.