Gun Homicides in U.S. DOWN 40% from 1993-2014!

Started by Ms.Independence, July 12, 2016, 05:14:28 AM

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Ms.Independence

Yet another stat to throw in the faces of anti-gunners!   :thumbsup:

Gun Homicides in U.S. Down 40% from 1993 to 2014; Lowest Rate in 34 Years


(CNSNews.com) - The number of homicides committed with a firearm in the United States in 2014 was 10,945, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's report on its final data on deaths in this county for that year, which was released on June 30.

The 10,945 firearm homicides in 2014 represented a 40-percent drop from the peak hit in 1993, when there were 18,253 firearm homicides in the country, according to CDC data.

The 10,945 firearm homicides in the United States in 2014 equaled a rate of 3.43 per 100,000 people in the population. That was the lowest firearm homicide rate the United States experienced in any of the 34 years from 1981 through 2014, according to data posted by the CDC on its "Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System" (WISQARS)...

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/gun-homicides-us-down-40-1993-2014

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another...Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...

tac

The gun grabbers don't care if the gun deaths are zero, they just want to eliminate guns.

Ms.Independence

Quote from: tac on July 12, 2016, 05:32:53 AM
The gun grabbers don't care if the gun deaths are zero, they just want to eliminate guns.

Without a doubt; eliminating guns gives them full control over the country and its citizenry.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another...Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...

supsalemgr

Quote from: tac on July 12, 2016, 05:32:53 AM
The gun grabbers don't care if the gun deaths are zero, they just want to eliminate guns.

That is the bottom line and lest we never forget it.
"If you can't run with the big dawgs, stay on the porch!"