This implies that 30,000 Americans are randomly murdered by strangers with firearms each year.
In reality just under 20,000 out of those 30,000 firearm deaths are deliberate suicides.
Out of the remaining 10,000 something like 6,000 are gang and drug related deaths involving individuals who are not innocent bystanders walking to school or shopping at the mall.
Of the remaining 4,000 something like 3,000 are people murdering a relative or a spouse or a significant other - again, not a random killing of a mall shopper or factory worker on the line or a child walking to school.
30,000 people do not die each year in the way the NYT describes - perhaps 500-750 do.
That's why it is a big deal in the newspapers: it is not news in Baltimore or Philadelphia when a drugdealer murders another drugdealer in a territorial or monetary dispute - that describes most murders in those cities. When a stray bullet kills a child walking to school it is front page news because it is a rare occurrence.
Bingo. And people wonder why I view the Dinosaur Media Death Watch threads with glee. Your post is why.