Been awhile since I looked up all the numbers, but it went something like this a few years ago (and was roughly consistent year after year):
30,000 deaths each year by firearm
20,000 of those deaths by suicide (not murder), which is sad but not a crime
10,000 firearm deaths by murder
7,000 of those are in the 10 largest cities, mostly in the inner city, and mostly committed by black criminals
3,000 firearm murders outside of the gang warfare territories
3,000,000 people defended by firearms against people who would wish to do harm (which by the way, almost none are from the inner cities, since those people tend not to report such events)
Been awhile since I looked up all the numbers, but it went something like this a few years ago (and was roughly consistent year after year):
Thanks for sharing. WE NEED TO SPREAD THE TRUTH. We need to counter the anti-gun lot with the real truth.