SunnyJim
Well-Known Member
More Americans have died from guns in the Unites States since 1968 than on battlefields of all the wars in American history.
Nicholas Kristof NYT 2015
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/opinion/lessons-from-the-murders-of-tv-journalists-in-the-virginia-shooting.html?smid=fb-share&_r=1
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/aug/27/nicholas-kristof/more-americans-killed-guns-1968-all-wars-says-colu/
EDIT: 1,516,863 gun-related deaths between 1968 and 2015
1,396,733 cumulative war deaths since the American Revolution.
Madness.
Nicholas Kristof NYT 2015
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/opinion/lessons-from-the-murders-of-tv-journalists-in-the-virginia-shooting.html?smid=fb-share&_r=1
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/aug/27/nicholas-kristof/more-americans-killed-guns-1968-all-wars-says-colu/
EDIT: 1,516,863 gun-related deaths between 1968 and 2015
1,396,733 cumulative war deaths since the American Revolution.
Madness.