Almost 3 times the total killed on 9/11, twice the total US soldiers killed in 9 years of Iraq War.

[Robb]

According to the Centers for Disease Control, 31,672 people were killed by firearms in America in 2010. Slate’s gun-death tally, which we include at the end of each post, has recorded 7,897 deaths since the Newtown massacre last December—almost three times the total killed on Sept. 11, and nearly double the number of U.S. soldiers killed over the course of the nine-year-long Iraq War.

Sobering as this tally is, there’s still a glaring disparity between the C.D.C. figures and Slate’s running total. The reason, Slate has explained, is that its tally is culled from news reports, and the C.D.C. figures are taken from death records.

“Using the most recent C.D.C. estimates…it is likely that as of today, 9/5/2013, roughly 23,381 people have died from guns in the United States since the Newtown shootings,” the site’s authors write.

“Compare that number to the number of deaths reported in the news and you can see how under-told the story of gun violence in America actually is.”

Read More: http://nocera.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/the-gun-report-september-5-2013/

[Turbineguy]

1. My new NRA motto:

"You're not a Real American unless you've been shot!"

[indepat]

2. There appears no limit to the number of lives the TPTB will willingly sacrifice in the name of

Second Amendment rights although spending untold hundreds of billions of dollars in violating our 4th Amendment rights to best assure no American is killed on our own soil by the hand of an al Que-da-type terraist. Perhaps a tad of balance would not be so seemingly dichotomous.