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Pretty good article in Ammoland...
"Gun Crime" is a Made Up Word from the Anti-Gun World, Get the Real Numbers
Some of the data...
"Gun Crime" is a Made Up Word from the Anti-Gun World, Get the Real Numbers
Some of the data...
There are approximately 120,000,000 gun owners in the US. We are the majority of voting adults.
53% of all shootings are by black men under 30. So, 3% of the US population does more than ½ the killing. 83% of all shootings are gang and drug-related.
Only about 7% of all shootings from a rifle or shotgun and less than 40% of that 7% involve Modern Sporting Rifles.
The U.S. ranks 11th in mass shootings for industrialized nations. 50% of the counties in the US will not have a murder within their boundary. 2% of the counties had 53% of all the murders in the U.S.
U.S. Numbers
- Total Number of gun deaths: 38,000
- Suicides: 28,500
- Gang and Drug: 7,885
- Remaining: 1,615