New infographic going around. Stay skeptical, folks!

[SgtToadette 59]

Getting right to it, here's the graphic:

 

 

Not very well sourced and can be picked apart really easily by anti-gun people. Criticism is well done at this link where I found the graphic:

 

http://www.reddit.com/r/Firearms/comments/2esztn/how_guns_are_used_in_america_infographic/ck2pcai

 

Even if we see data supporting our side it's important to investigate it and verify the information before we regurgitate it. Bummer the info isn't better because the graphic itself is well done.

[mipafox 438]

Without checking the source it is probably true that guns are being used 80x more often in defense against violent crime rather vs. used in violent crime, according to none other than Obama's multi-billion dollar 2013 capstone CDC anti-gun report.

 

But obviously that has nothing to do with the 31,000 number quoted which is likely the number of people killed with firearms involved (mostly suicides) and is not a measure of "gun incidents."

 

Stopped reading there, I'm sure the rest is also a mess.

[CMJeepster 2,778]

But obviously that has nothing to do with the 31,000 number quoted which is likely the number of people killed with firearms involved (mostly suicides) and is not a measure of "gun incidents."

~11K are suicides.

[mipafox 438]

~11K are suicides.

That's hard to believe. Suicides have been >60% of firearms related deaths as long as I can remember and I have no doubt they remain so today.

 

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate

 

2. Obama Report p28:

 

"Firearm-related suicides—though receiving far less public attention—significantly outnumber homicides for all age groups, with suicides accounting for approximately 60 percent of all firearm injury fatalities in the United States in 2009"

 

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=18319&page=

[CMJeepster 2,778]

Oops!  Sorry, I got that backwards.