RE: The Third Leading Cause of Death in the US, Medical Error - Fighting Bad Statistics

[kryzsec]

I was going to correct the image but then I saw the part where you said out of homicides there are only 300-500 killed with guns... So I can't argue that... I was just going to say that if you count suicides and otherwise, I mean in 2016 Texas had over 3,000 fatalities caused by firearms.

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[alexs1320]

This is specifically for the Rifles. FBI statistics separate firearms into:

• handguns, about 6 000 homicides
• rifles, about 300
• shotguns, about 300
• other guns, about 100
• not known firearms, about 2 000
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The context of that meme is the proposal to ban semi-auto rifles that gained bad reputation after mass shootings