...with guns in the United States, according the the Slate site How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown?. This number includes 196 children - that is, persons between the ages of 0-12; that's almost 10 times the number of children killed, for no determinable reason, by Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook.
Compare the total number to the 6,779 deaths reported by the Defense Department for the combined ~21.5 war-years of Operations Iraqi Freedom, New Dawn, and Enduring Freedom (aka the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, 2001-2013). Where is the real war occurring?
The standard disclaimer from Slate still applies:
Update, June 19, 2013: As time goes on, our count gets further and further away from the likely actual number of gun deaths in America—because roughly 60 percent of deaths by gun are due to suicides, which are very rarely reported. When discussing this issue, please note that our number is by design not accurate and represents only the number of gun deaths that the media can find out about contemporaneously. Part of the purpose of this interactive is to point out how difficult it is to get accurate real-time numbers on this issue.
Using the most recent CDC estimates for yearly deaths by guns in the United States, it is likely that as of today, November 26, 2013, roughly 31,639 people have died from guns in the U.S. since the Newtown shootings. Compare that number to the number of deaths reported in the news in our interactive below, and you can see how undertold the story of gun violence in America actually is.
So, does "the Country", and do the politicians, care...about "senseless tragedies"? - NO. About sacred guns? - well, you decide.
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