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Originally Posted by crb07
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This article makes some excellent points. The 300,000+ figure of gun deaths over the last 10 years is useless, because it includes accidents and suicides. If 2011 is representative, fully 2/3 of that # is due to suicide.
But back that # down to 1/3, or about 100,000, and terrorism still only accounts for only 3% of deaths. I don't know the actual figures, but I'll bet gov't spending on anti-terrorism measures is many, many times that spent on fixing the issues that lead to murders, gun-related or otherwise. That, IMO, is a colossal failure.