The 30,000 guns deaths per year in the USA do not include the gun deaths by suicide in the USA. The 30,000 per year of gun deaths is only HALF of what is occurring.
...This is from the CDC (click here) (Center for Disease Control) 2006-2007.Violence-related firearm deaths remain an important public health concern in the United States. During 2006–2007, a total of 25,423 firearm homicides and 34,235 firearm suicides occurred among U.S. residents (1). These national totals include 4,166 firearm homicides and 1,446 firearm suicides among youths aged 10–19 years; the rate of firearm homicides among youths slightly exceeded the rate among persons of all ages....
Chart: The U.S. has far more gun-related killings than any other developed country (click here)
Posted by Max Fisher on December 14, 2012 at 4:50 pm
...One piece of this puzzle is the national rate of firearm-related murders, which is charted above. The United States has by far the highest per capita rate of all developed countries. According to data compiled by the United Nations, the United States has four times as many gun-related homicides per capita as do Turkey and Switzerland, which are tied for third. The U.S. gun murder rate is about 20 times the average for all other countries on this chart. That means that Americans are 20 times as likely to be killed by a gun than is someone from another developed country....
Walter Hickey
Dec. 17, 2012, 2:38 PM
The United States has the highest gun ownership rates in the world and the second highest rate of gun deaths among industrialized nations.
That's not a coincidence. Looking at developed nations, the U.S. is the end point of a staggering trend where the higher the rate of gun ownership, the more people die from gun wounds...
