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According to the United Nations, 2,473,018 people died in the United States in 2008.
That comes to 6,775 per day.
Of those 2,473,018 deaths from all causes 12,200 were gun related deaths, or 0.0049332435105608% (less than 1/2 of 1% of all deaths)
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/vitstats/serATab3.pdf
According to the CDC ... Center for Disease Control, in the U.S.A. 2,596,993 people died from all causes in 2013.
That comes to 7,115 per day.
Of those 10,700 were gun related deaths, or 0.0041201497270112% (again, less than 1/2 of 1% of all deaths)
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_02.pdf Less than 1/2 of 1%.......Low numbers in a free & open society of 325+ million, but there's always room for improvement.....better firearm safety education, the enforcement of gun laws already on the books, especially the apprehension & prosecution of violent criminals, & improvements to the diagnosis & treatment of the mentally ill.
Noun: homicide 1. The killing of a human being by another human being
BTW.....neither the US Obama Government run CDC, nor the United Nations include firearm suicide in their tabulations of firearms homicide, maybe they believe as I do, that firearm suicide, as is all suicide.....in the end......is actually a public service, rather than a form of violent crime.
The also don't include the over 600,000 abortions each year in America as homicides either. ..
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