Quote Originally Posted by USMilitaryGuy View Post
Thanks for the reply.

For those that don't want to have to look it up - http://www.politifact.com/punditfact...ars-says-colu/

OK. They had numbers. I have a calculator.

From 1968 until 2015 is 47 years. (Their cut-off date, not mine.) They used the year of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination. He was actually assassinated in June, but I gave them the whole year in order to lower the daily death count. With an average of 365 days per year (because I did not want to calculate leap years), is a total of 17,155 days.

1,516,863 deaths (their number) divided by 17,155 days equals a little more than 88 deaths per day - everyday of the year - for 47 years.

Statistics - you gotta love them.

You would think 88 gun deaths per day - everyday - for 47 years would be . . . ummmm . . . common knowledge? I guess you can learn (or at least read) something everyday.

Thanks, again for the info.
And I thank you Sir for a polite response on what is typically a very hostile forum towards any viewpoint not wanted to be heard....

Even as a gun lover I have think hard about those stats ...... even if a lot of them "were only" suicides