Wednesday, June 22, 2016

I looked up a couple of things about people shooting people:

Deaths in America caused by a Gun:

The year 2014, the most recent statistics available...

  • There were just over 33,000 Gun deaths in America in 2014
  • 60% of them were suicides.........ie 19,982
  • 3% were accidental.....................         990
  • 4% were justified........................      1,320
  • 33% were Homicides..................    10,840*
             *80% of Homicides were Gang Related...ie    8712
             * That leaves 2178 non Gang Related Homicides commited
                with a Gun in a country of 300million plus people.

source: Center for Disease Control 
                      
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# of Mass Shooting incidents in America (3 or more killed in one incident)

Years 1982 thru 2016

Per Presidential Term:

  •  Reagan  11
  • Bush       12
  • Clinton   23
  • Bush Jr   16
  • Obama    34
TOTAL            96

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