“More Americans have died from guns in the United States since 1968 than on battlefields of all the wars in American history.”
Here are the stats provided by PolitiFact.com (Louis Jacobson):
Here’s a summary of deaths by major conflict:
| War | Deaths |
| Revolutionary War | 4,435 |
| War of 1812 | 2,260 |
| Mexican War | 13,283 |
| Civil War (Union and Confederate, estimate) | 750,000 |
| Spanish-American War | 2,446 |
| World War I | 116,516 |
| World War II | 405,399 |
| Korean War | 36,574 |
| Vietnam War | 58,220 |
| Persian Gulf War | 383 |
| Afghanistan War | 2,363 |
| Iraq War | 4,492 |
| Other wars (includes Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, Somalia and Haiti) | 362 |
| TOTAL | 1,396,733 |
Compared to gun related deaths which include homicides, suicides, police intervention and accidents:
| Years | Firearm-related deaths |
| 1968 to 1980 | 377,000 |
| 1981 to 1998 | 620,525 |
| 1999 to 2013 | 464,033 |
| 2014
(estimated based on rate from 2011-2013) |
33,183 |
| 2015
(estimated based on rate from 2011-2013) |
22,122 |
| TOTAL, 1968-2015 | 1,516,863 |
Pretty shocking, isn’t it? And what’s the NRA response? Arm everyone. I can’t wait to see the stats after we enter the wild wild west of shoot outs at Tony’s Pizza where I have seen some of the patrons “packing”. Instead of making me feel safer, I want to run away. So I get take-out instead.
