At Least 9,900 People Have Died From Guns In The U.S. Since The Newtown Shooting: Slate

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On Dec. 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza -- armed with his mother's guns -- stormed into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and murdered 20 children and six adult members of staff. As the nation mourned in the wake of that unthinkable tragedy, many citizens and lawmakers raised their voices to demand stricter gun control laws, President Obama vowed to use his power to curb gun violence. "We're not doing enough," he said at a December vigil. "And we will have to change." Tragically, change has been slow in coming.

According to Slate's gun deaths tally project, at least 9,901 gun-related deaths in the United States have been reported by the media since the Newtown shooting. This number, says Slate, is a gross underestimate of the actual number of deaths caused by guns in the last 10 months.

"As time goes on, our count gets further and further away from the likely actual number of gun deaths in America -- because roughly 60 percent of deaths by gun are due to suicides, which are very rarely reported," the news outlet says. "When discussing this issue, please note that our number is by design not accurate and represents only the number of gun deaths that the media can find out about contemporaneously."

Using 2010 data on firearm deaths provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Slate estimates that the number of gun deaths since the Newtown tragedy is likely closer to 28,600. As Salon's Sally Kohn points out, that works out to about 90 people a day.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/28/gun-deaths-since-newtown_n_4165061.html

Seems like Homeland Security should be taking action on guns. These are numbers that bin Laden could only dream of.

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1. Doesn't pass the sniff test as far as I'm concerned.

[BainsBane]

2. Why?

32,000 people are killed by guns every year in this country.

[badtoworse]

3. The number seemed too high, but it's 1.7 per state per day

Still seems too high, but if it includes suicides, it could be right.

[BainsBane]

4. No, it's been nearly a year

far more people have died than 9000.

[onehandle]

5. I heard that Sandy Hook was an Obama anti-gun black ops operation.

Does that pass the 'sniff test?'

[badtoworse]

6. What do you think?