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Guns killed more Americans in 12 years than AIDS, war, and illegal drug overdoses combined
Guns killed more Americans in 12 years than AIDS, war, and illegal drug overdoses combinedby Zack Beauchamp at Vox
http://www.vox.com/2015/10/3/9446193/gun-deaths-aids-war-terrorism
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Thursday night, during an impassioned address about the shooting at Umpqua Community College, President Obama laid out a challenge to the media. "Have news organizations tally up the number of Americans who've been killed through terrorist attacks in the last decade and the number of Americans who've been killed by gun violence, and post those side by side on your news reports," he asked.
We've looked at those numbers a bit, but you can take this comparison even further: if you include all gun deaths (including homicides, suicides, and accidents), guns killed more Americans between 2001 and 2013 than terrorism, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, AIDS, and illegal drug overdoses combined:
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