Guns in the Home: A Detailed Look at the Statistics by The Watcher Emeritus' Mike Antol, a writer at Quora, has an in-depth look at the gun death statistics often cited by gun control advocates. He writes: There are 32,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms, and this number is not disputed. Average U.S. population 324,059,091. Do the math: 0.00987% of the population dies from gun related actions each year. Statistically speaking, this is insignificant! What is never told, however, is a breakdown of those 32,000 deaths, to put them in perspective as compared to other causes of death:•...
