U.S. gun violence: The story in graphics

I think "Violence" is the problem not the means to commit it.......There will ALWAYS be a way to commit violence....Heck, baseball bats are the # 1 weapon of choice for violence per the FBI. Like Cowboy said, criminals will ALWAYS find a way to obtain a firearm....That's why they are criminals.

I always get a kick out of Numbers, Reading that we have an Increase in Gun ownership and a decrees in crime. Seems cut and dried to me. The majority of mass shootings happen in gun free zones... interesting facts. But while everyone is so intent on how horrible the gun is they fail to note that Gun Violence doesn't even enter in to the top 10 ways for Americans die. Those are,

1.Heart disease
2.Cancer (malignant neoplasms)
3.Chronic lower respiratory disease
4.Accidents (unintentional injuries)
5.Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases)
6.Alzheimer's disease
7.Diabetes (diabetes mellitus)
8.Influenza and pneumonia
9.Kidney disease (nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis)
10.Suicide (intentional self-harm).

Suicide is number 10 and accounts for 41,149 deaths a year. My understanding is half of that is by Fire arm and the other half was by other means.

So you are LESS likely to be killed by a Gun than you are by that donut or Bacon sandwich. lol.

I've got a few observations to make on CNN's presentation of their data.

- After yielding the fact that “59.5% of gun deaths are suicides”, the 38.4% of gun deaths reported as “homicides” lumps together “murders” and “justifiable homicides” e.g. self-defense.
- 13.1% of active shooter incidents end when unarmed citizens “safely and successfully restrained the shooter” ---- but they do not report how many were killed or wounded in such unarmed attempts. The father of Suzanna Hupp comes to mind. He was shot dead in his unarmed attempt to stop the killer in the Luby's mass-murder. How many others are there?
- “Seven in 10 active shootings are in schools, businesses” ---- but they do not mention that virtually ALL those “active shootings” are in “gun free zones”.
- 3.1% of the incidents were ended when “Armed citizens exchanged gunfire with the shooters”. Since the overwhelming number of such incidents are in “gun free zones”, it is remarkable that armed citizens could be permitted to be any factor at all in stopping such a mass-murder. It is also difficult to figure out what is meant by “exchanged gunfire”----- citizen and killer shooting at one another, or just the citizen shooting the killer. This also ignores at least one incident, a mall shooting ended when an off-duty security guard at the mall was armed, and scared off the killer by pointing his gun at him. No “exchange of gunfire” in that case.