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submitted 1 year ago by uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

It's about 26k total homicides per year, about half are firearms, a huge majority of those are handguns.

So 875k people in the US are shot to death roughly every 67 years.