How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown? Death Tally now up to 812 & counting

[sasha031]

Slate partners with @GunDeaths for an interactive, crowdsourced tally of the toll firearms have taken since Dec. 14.
By Chris Kirk and Dan Kois
Posted Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013, at 8:30 AM ET
The answer to the simple question in that headline is surprisingly hard to come by. So Slate and the Twitter feed @GunDeaths are collecting data for our crowdsourced interactive. This data is necessarily incomplete. But the more people who are paying attention, the better the data will be. You can help us draw a more complete picture of gun violence in America. If you know about a gun death in your community that isn’t represented here, please tweet @GunDeaths with a citation. (If you’re not on Twitter, you can email [e-mail].) And if you’d like to use this data yourself for your own projects, it’s open. You can download it here.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2012/12/gun_death_tally_every_american_gun_death_since_newtown_sandy_hook_shooting.html

[bowens43]

1. almost 3 times the number of US soldiers killed in Afghanistan in 2012

and in only one month.....


this is on you gun lovers......

[Chorophyll]

2. In a single month. I weep for this country.

Some friend-of-a-friend on Facebook said the other day that he was willing to "sacrifice a certain number of lives" to maintain "his rights." This is the mentality we're up against.

[cantbeserious]

3. The Wild West - All Condoned As "Acceptable Losses" By Gun Enthusiasts And The NRA

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[apocalypsehow]

4. And the word from our "pro gun progressives"* is that that is just too damn bad:

their (fictional) "right" to strut down to Wal Mart with a pistol perched in their pants trumps those 812 people's right to live. Or anyone else killed in the carnage that is this country's gun culture's bloody legacy.

Time for some laws to be passed; some firearms to be turned in; and some jail sentences handed out to those "law-abiding gun owners" who won't follow those new laws. Period.



*( )

[sasha031]

5. ...agreed

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. Sad, frightened K&R

[samsingh]

7. crazy

[enough]

8. k&r (nt)

[jollyreaper2112]

9. not updating

Nothing new since the 4th.