On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 20:19:54 GMT, Paul Kierstead wrote:
In article ,
Dave Hinz wrote:

Far more than 50,000 people are SHOT every year in the US.
Every fourteen minutes someone DIES from a gun shot wound in the US.

Yes, I've seen this claim before, but not by anyone who can back it up.

Some numbers from the US government, http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars/
For 2001, firearm death count was 29,573

29000 seems to be a smaller number than 50000.

Also from the same source, 2001 again, homicide (not necessarily from
firearms) was the #2 killer for ages 15-34, the #4 killer from ages 1-9
and the #6 killer from 35-44. These numbers include accidents, illness,
etc.

For non-fatal injuries from firearms, there were 63,012 for 2001. This
does *not* include BB guns and pellet guns.

Total injuries and deaths from firearms in 2001 in the U.S.: 92,585

That is 253/day, 10/hour or about one every 5 1/2 minutes.
Backed up well enough for you?

How many of these are suicides? How many are criminal-on-criminal violence?
How many of them are in places where gun control prohibits honest folks
from protecting themselves, making them easy (and safe) targets of armed
criminals?