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