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In reply to the discussion: Man shopping for coffee creamer at Walmart attacked by vigilante for carrying gun he was legally per [View all]beevul
(12,194 posts)300+ million guns, in the hands of 80+ million people, fire several billion rounds every year.
That's a fact.
And yet there are ten thousandish homicides.
You can define "use" any way you like, but the fact of the matter, is that even multiplied by a factor of ten, murder by gun accounts for .01 percent of all guns.
Oh, what about suicides? Setting aside the fact that suicides have different causes and therefore different solutions, if we lump them all together as if they are all the same (who would do that except someone more interested in gun control than saving lives), we get .03 percent of all guns involved.
That doesn't sound quite as dangerous as you'd like everyone to believe, or quite as "epidemic" a picture as you folks like to paint.