What do you make of this statement?

[AH-64D]

"Every day, 125 people in the United States are killed with guns, twice as many are shot and wounded, and countless others are impacted by acts of gun violence."

Everytown for Gun Safety

That comes to 45,000 people a year, a statistic that is hard to believe; and adding 90,000 are shot and wounded makes it completely implausible.

And yet they have millions of followers and adherents.

The NRA could make themselves relevant again just by dispelling these falsehoods. Yet no one challenges them.

 

[Doc]

NRA: Never Really Advocating

I hope the boomers quit funding them.

 

[uwu]

45,000 gun deaths a year in the USA is very plausible.

For the year 2022 in the USA, we've got 27,032 suicides[1] by firearm and 19,651 murders by firearm.

That adds up to 46,683, or around 127 deaths per day.

The 27k number for suicides matches my priors as it's ~50% of suicides, and firearms have many advantages over other techniques.

The 19k number is around 80% of murders, which seems accurate but it might undercounting things like negligent homicide.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/suicide.htm
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm

 

[xerts1191]

 

[QuietM4]

47.3% of all statistics are made up.

Half of those numbers are suicides, that’s been a truth for years. The rest are a majority of gang related crimes. Take out gang related crimes from cities like Detroit, LA, Washington DC, Baltimore, New York, Chicago, and St Louis, and the real numbers are very small.

But no one with an anti-gun agenda will say that.

 

[BroncoAZ]

"Every day, 125 people in the United States are killed with guns, twice as many are shot and wounded, and countless others are impacted by acts of gun violence."

Everytown for Gun Safety

That comes to 45,000 people a year, a statistic that is hard to believe; and adding 90,000 are shot and wounded makes it completely implausible.

And yet they have millions of followers and adherents.

The NRA could make themselves relevant again just by dispelling these falsehoods. Yet no one challenges them.

The number of those deaths committed as part of police actions is probably 25%, in anger is probably 25% of the 45,000, and the number from “assault weapons” is likely under 200. The number of “countless others” impacted is in the dozens or scores. Handguns are the issue, but they insist on coming after evil black rifles with standard capacity magazines. They figure EBR’s are in less households, so will be an easier stepping stone to going after handguns, then shotguns, then hunting rifles with an ultimate goal of civilian disarmament. Coming after the handguns that are likely in half of the households in the country is a big lift.

I offered my brother in law who lives in DFW a handgun this week. He’s been shooting with me but isn’t a gun guy. His reply was a polite no thank you. I reminded him of how shitty the world is getting and he seemed completely oblivious of the threats one could face.