311 million americans own 270 million guns= 12,000 U.S. homicide deaths annually [View all]

[lindysalsagal]

If terrorists were killing 12,000 of us per year, would we do something about it?

9/11 was only 2,795, and we started WWIII over it. Yet, all we can do is argue about the 12K/year we bring on ourselves.

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html
Total american population: 311 million

http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-states
270 million privately owned guns

There were 52,447 deliberate and 23,237 accidental non-fatal gunshot injuries in the United States during 2000.[4] The majority of gun-related deaths in the United States are suicides,[5] with 17,352 (55.6%) of the total 31,224 firearm-related deaths in 2007 due to suicide, while 12,632 (40.5%) were homicide deaths.[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States

http://articles.cnn.com/2002-11-02/us/wtc.death.toll_1_victim-list-tina-spicer-peter-montoulieu?_s=PM:US

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