Group Claims Armed Citizens Have Killed More Americans than All Wars Combined

breitbart.com ^ | 9/25/2015 | AWR Hawkins

[rktman]

On September 21 Americans for Responsible Solutions–the gun control group founded by Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly–tweeted numbers from the Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAP) claiming armed citizens in America have killed more people since 1989 than all wars since 1776 combined.

The tweet contains a meme which says, “The number of deaths from gun violence just since Reagan’s presidency is higher than the number of soldiers killed in combat in all of U.S. history.”

[ataDude]

They are sooooooooooo full of it.

[FreedomPoster]

I’m sure there is also quite a number of suicides. The Japanese amply prove that someone suicidal doesn’t necessarily need access to firearms, so the argument is intellectually dishonest on that aspect of the numbers as well.

[catnipman]

3 ... 2 ... 1 ... AND kommie media picks up this blatant falsehood and repeats far and wide ad naseum without the smallest attempt at verifying it’s veracity, and then this shibboleth enters the collective consciousness forever as an absolute fact.

[Larry Lucido]

To these idiots, a guy shot while trying to stick a knife in a police officer is a “death due to gun violence”. Idiots!!!

And if the perp was 25 or younger, he was a "child" or "yute."

[Red in Blue PA]

Anyone ask these clowns about the murders from Legally Possessed firearms?

[Rodamala]

That’s a lot of black on black violence.

[right way right]

Well, let's just turn our arms over to trannical powers and let them even up the score. Don't forget the ammo.

[right way right]

for that last post.

[right way right]

My sarc tag is not coming through...dang.

[Crucial]

Well, most of them probably deserved it thus making it a better world. The numbers are too inflated though.

[driftless2]

I would guess that black males have killed anywhere from 750,000 to one million other black males in the last one hundred years. I remember reading crime reports from the 1920s and ‘30s in the big northern cities, and black crime and homicide rates were pretty high even then.

[Pajamajan]

"To these idiots, a guy shot while trying to stick a knife in a police officer is a a death due to gun violence."

Exactly.

[MeshugeMikey]

Group..... of Screwballs....

[dila813]

That’s what the UN reports too, this includes anyone killed by guns for any reason what so ever.

[Kickass Conservative]

Is it more or less than Planned Parenthood has killed with Chemicals, Forceps and Scalpels?

[rktman]

Even clubbing with a rifle butt probably.

[trebb]

If that stat were true, there would be about 75 million of us left - either that or the number of illegals is way more than anyone could dream......

Did a quick search of combined death toll for all wars and a skim/addition-estimate of lowest estimates came up with about 240 million)

[rktman]

Based on what you found that only proves that their lies are unsubstantiated and to the msm proof that they are correct. Liblogic 101. Sadly, for those that even care, nobody will call them on it because it would be picking on a disabled person. Or racist. Or homophobic. Or mysoginistic. Or islamophobic. Or something.

[rktman]

How silly of me to not mount a counter argument that is so obvious that it zinged right past.

Okay Mr. ass-tro-naught and puppet. Should we discount all the Jews, Armenians, Russians, Cambodians etc., that were killed by oppressive regimes because they were denied the one thing our founders made sure would be a “protected right”? I’m sure those number far surpass the BS line your touting. Crickets. There, I feel better now. :>}

[DungeonMaster]

Is a criminal with an illegal gun an “armed citizen”? No.