America's deadly devotion to guns.

[ToolMaker]

50. Even "usually" is almost certainly far from accurate...

In Missouri alone, there are an average 250,000 deer harvested every year. Even allowing for only 5% of them being taken by handguns, this comes out to 12,500. Keep in mind that this is only one state, and includes only deer. There are a significant number of other animals that are regularly hunted with handguns also. Some examples include squirrel, rabbit, hogs, elk, even bears and bison.

Now compare that to the number of people "hunted" with handguns. To be fair, the only handgun deaths that could even be considered would have to be homicides. According to the Bureau of Justice, the highest number of handgun homicides in any given year since 1976, was about 14,000. This was in 1993. The last time that the number was greater than 10,000 was about 1996. I daresay that there are most likely far more animals hunted with handguns in any given year than there are people.

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Perhaps you would have better luck making your point to those "on the fence" with regard to the gun issue if you were to put a bit more effort into making arguments that at least sound plausible.