People killed by guns last year...

[hlthe2b]

People killed by gun last year:

Japan: 10
Sweden: 41
Switzerland: 47
UK: 50
Israel: 105
Australia: 207

Total Population: 246,959,950
Total Guns: 8,804,000
Total Gun Deaths: 460

United States...

Population: 329,093,106
Guns: 393,347,000
Gun Deaths: 39,773

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[underpants]

1. So we have a 1/10th of1% chance.

Stay strong

Odessa Strong
Boston Strong
Vegas Strong
Elementary school Strong
Church Strong
Temple Strong
Walmart Strong

[lapfog_1]

2. The other way to look at it

Lets say you know around 50 people (co-workers, family, community)... and they know another 20 people that you do not know)... so in the population of 1000 people with 2 degrees of separation from you, odds are that one of those people will be shot to death in the next year.

In my life... I've personally known 2 people to die by gunshot. One was probably my second best friend in middle school (hunting accident), the other was my college mentor and friend who was mysteriously killed by someone in an yet to be unsolved murder in 1981. He had told me in the weeks before his murder that "something was going on with a project he was working on for a government agency" but he never elaborated.

Those are the direct (1 degree) people... I know others who know people that have died in a mass shooting (Sunnyvale CA 1988 ESL shooting - 7 dead).

I'm almost certain that I know people who knew people that have died in mass shootings in other years, but I haven't made the connections.

I wouldn't be surprised that I know someone that knew a victim of the Gilroy Garlic festival shooting just a few weeks ago (but now long forgotten in the list of mass shootings).

[keithbvadu2]

3. Active shooter casualties per year chart 2000 - 2017

Active shooter casualties per year chart 2000 - 2017

[NickB79]

4. 25,000 suicides by gun a year will do that

We need to look at ways to prevent suicide by gun just as much as ways to prevent homicide by gun.

[Initech]

5. MAGA!!!