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To: Kaslin

And her claim of 33,000 gun deaths per year? I believe that to be a lie/exaggeration. The numbers I recall are more along the lines of about 16,000 for most recent years. Looking at this, from Wiki: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Ushomicidesbyweapon.svg/846px-Ushomicidesbyweapon.svg.png


5 posted on 10/20/2016 8:02:06 AM PDT by Zarro (Tune OUT the MSM. The enemy of our republic.)
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To: Zarro
She didn't say homicides, she said gun deaths. (She is being very nuanced there) If you include suicides you get the 33,000.

For 2012:

14 posted on 10/20/2016 8:09:29 AM PDT by Gamecock (Gun owner. Christian. Pro-American. Pro Law and Order. I am in the basket of deplorables.)
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To: Zarro

The 33000 number is about right.
It also needs qualifying.
About half are suicides.
Most of the rest are murders.
Very very few are accidents of the kind Hillary was trying to implicate; the number is so small that a fair discussion would have to seek banning pools first.
Most of the deaths involve handguns, but Hillary first wants to implicate assault weapons, which are a vanishingly small percentage of the guns used.


17 posted on 10/20/2016 8:11:58 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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To: Zarro

That’s total homicides, many of which (maybe most) are justified self defense.


18 posted on 10/20/2016 8:12:25 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Zarro

“And her claim of 33,000 gun deaths per year?”

But Trump didn’t call her out on it, so it stands as fact to voters.


26 posted on 10/20/2016 8:23:11 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Giggles the pig for POTUS - 2016)
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To: Zarro

“And her claim of 33,000 gun deaths per year? I believe that to be a lie/exaggeration.”

I think the number 33,000 was imprinted on her brain by Trump’s repeated reference to the number of emails she destroyed.


60 posted on 10/20/2016 1:23:21 PM PDT by map
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To: Zarro

What percentage of gun deaths are from the domestic terrorists “crips and bloods” and why are we not droning them?


62 posted on 10/20/2016 3:10:15 PM PDT by WENDLE (Hillary provided Weapons to ISIS!! There is no doubt.)
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