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In reply to the discussion: Hartmann just now: "More Americans have died by gun violence [View all]Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)4. It depends on how you count the deaths....
Last edited Sat Feb 9, 2013, 07:31 PM - Edit history (1)
If you subtract non-combat deaths from the totals for the Civil War, WW I & WW II you get 848,163 war dead. There have been 1.3 million people killed by guns since 1960. If you include the non-combat deaths for those three wars it's close, with 26, 612 more people dying as a result of war.
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Enemies already are subtracted since it says, "Americans killed" not "people killed"
Lionessa
Feb 2013
#34
Exactly, I agree that those stats are biasly hyped and therefore useless and lack any connection
Lionessa
Feb 2013
#39
They even include accidents in one category, and exclude them in the other.
HooptieWagon
Feb 2013
#42
These are but small prices a right-wing-soused society willingly pays for the right to pack
indepat
Feb 2013
#16
For all X not equal to the USA, Nation X has had far more combat deaths than domestic gun deaths.
Junkdrawer
Feb 2013
#48
That's true. It is also true that the number of traffic fatalities dwarfs both of these.
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2013
#32
Fear not. Before the NRA statisticians are done, we'll find that guns have given birth....
Junkdrawer
Feb 2013
#43
Ahhhh, but that would require people to sit down and take a hard look at the data
derby378
Feb 2013
#54