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To: Bill who wrote (910071)	12/21/2015 5:29:33 PM
From: jlallen	1 Recommendation Recommended By TimF Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573876

And many of those deaths are suicides and some are accidents...actual "gun violence" is only a portion of the 36K.

To: Bill who wrote (910071)	12/21/2015 5:37:05 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Respond to of 1573876

Guns are killing almost as many people as cars and cars are used for hours per day per household......guns get very little actual use but when they are used, someone very often dies.......... For the better part of a century, the machine most likely to kill an American has been the automobile.Car crashes killed 33,561 people in 2012, the most recent year for which data is available, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Firearms killed 32,251 people in the United States in 2011, the most recent year for which the Centers for Disease Control has data.But this year gun deaths are expected to surpass car deaths. That's according to a Center for American Progress report, which cites CDC data that shows guns will kill more Americans under 25 than cars in 2015. Already more than a quarter of the teenagers—15 years old and up—who die of injuries in the United States are killed in gun-related incidents, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. theatlantic.com