More Americans were shot to death by March 6 this year than died on D-Day

[DonViejo]

By Philip Bump
June 6 at 3:26 PM

A 19-year-old in Delaware, a 25-year-old in Columbus, Ohio, a 33-year-old in California, and a 64-year-old in Indiana.

They are among the 29 people fatally shot in the United States on March 6. Meaning that any one of them might have been the shooting death that pushed the year’s total past the number of deaths suffered by American forces during the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944.

On Thursday, Americans remembered those killed on D-Day, 75 years back. It was a day of enormous heroism that was critical in turning back Nazi Germany’s attempt to conquer Europe. Thousands of Americans, Canadians, Australians and soldiers from other countries were part of the largest amphibious invasion force in history.

Some 2,501 Americans gave their lives that day, according to historic estimates. Another 1,913 soldiers from other Allied countries also died, bringing the total death toll from the immediate invasion to 4,414. It took until late April before the number of people killed by guns in the United States in 2019 topped that number, according to data collected by the Gun Violence Archive. (This data excludes suicides.)



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[real Cannabis calm]

1. here's a 5th recommendation

[underpants]

2. Amazing.

[MFGsunny]

3. Let THAT fact sink in ........ K&R n/t

[IronLionZion]

4. America is a deadly country

We solve our problems with murder. And we wonder why we keep having problems.

[maxsolomon]

6. That murderous impulse is common to most nations

What's missing is the ability to carry it out en masse via cheap semi-automatic weapons.

[IronLionZion]

8. NRA claims an armed society is a polite society

but only after we're all dead

[maxsolomon]

9. Creating Fear is easy

and it sells.

Americans own half of all the guns on the planet.

[lunatica]

11. With that logic we should be the nicest country on the planet

That reputation we have in the world of being arrogant, demanding and jingoistic must be wrong then. Case closed.

[NickB79]

14. 2/3 of these were suicide, not murder

We ignore those with mental health problems and let them die by their own hands.

[IronLionZion]

15. The graph clearly states "excluding suicides"

[NickB79]

17. Damn, misread it as "including suicides"

That's fucking depressing even more.

[IronLionZion]

18. It's depressing to think suicides would make it 3 times as many

mental health and guns are both serious problems, but dealing with guns will help lower suicides. Suicide is more likely when there is a gun available.

[iluvtennis]

5. Wow.

[lunatica]

7. Statistics like this put things in perspective

I would have never thought that within the first half of this year the deaths caused by guns would actually surpass D-Day deaths.

[peggysue2]

10. What you said!

Statistics like this put things in perspective

They certainly do.

[hunter]

12. Then for sure, we must be winning!

Thank you, Donald Trump for putting the "D" in D-day.

[NickB79]

13. Over 2/3 of those were suicides

America is a depressing place to live these days

[Kaleva]

16. Right at the top of the graph it says "Excluding suicides".