"There are more women dying, there are more men dying, and there are more children dying."

[The Magistrate]

20. Nice Bit Of Cherry Picking Yourself, Sir

The article goes on to state that the cut-off point of 1997 was not chosen but imposed by limitations on CDC data; said limitations being imposed by the political ( read money ) influence of the NRA, an organization you proudly pay membership dues to, which wishes there to be no public health data available with government imprimature on the health risks of gun ownership, both to persons who own guns as a class and to society as a whole.

The relation pointed out, of course, holds true even as gun deaths decline, along with a general decline in violent crime: where in locales where more guns are present, more people are shot than are shot in locales where fewer guns are present. It was this relation which the study demonstrated from existing data, rather than, as you pretend, a simple claim greater numbers of guns mean more deaths over-all.