Once Again, FBI Crime Report Deflates ‘Gun Violence Epidemic’ Rhetoric

By Dave Workman

U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- Almost on schedule, the annual FBI Uniform Crime Report has punctured a major contention by gun control advocates that the United States is in the midst of a “gun violence epidemic” by reporting the estimated number of homicides involving firearms in 2018, which dropped slightly from the number killed in 2017.

Last year, according to the FBI, there were 14,123 homicides, of which 10,265 involved firearms. In 2017, there were 15,129 total slayings, and firearms were involved in 10,982 of those murders.
But what about the claims that 30,000 to 36,000 people die annually from so-called “gun violence?” Like it or not, roughly 60 percent of those deaths are suicides, not the result of criminal acts as some gun control proponents would have the public believe.

In an Op-Ed published last month in USA Today, Dr. David J. Skorton, president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges, wrote, “The horror of mass shootings commands the headlines, but fewer Americans know that suicides accounted for a …Read the Rest

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