American gun crime statistics

American gun crime statistics
How high is american gun crime statistics?


In 2010 the latest statistics avaliable, there were 12.966, of those 8.775 were caused by firearms.
The figures show that California had the highest number of gun murders last year, 1,257, which is 69% of all murders that year and equivalent to 3.37 per 100,000 people in the state. While gun crimes is down in most states, it is up in New York, Virginia, New Jersey, Mississippi, Missouri, Arizona, Delaware, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Connecticut and serveral of the smaller states.If you look at the firearms murder rate per 100,000 people, District of Columbia comes out top, with 16 firearm murders per 100,000 Man, Woman and child. There were 99 Firearm murders in Dc in 2010.

Guns

(A) The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000.

Yes, that is 80 million.

(B) The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500.

(C) The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is 0.000188

Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.

Remember, "Guns don't kill people, doctors do."

FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR.