07-24-2015, 03:28 PM
(07-24-2015, 03:12 PM)BlueTiki Wrote: I honestly don't know where the president is getting his figures.
According to the CDC (in 2013), the Assault/Homicide body count was 11,208, by firearms.
That doesn't equate to "tens of thousands" of deaths by gun violence, to me.
He didn't say "annually", he said "since 9/11".
His statement was accurate. There have definitely been tens of thousands of deaths attributable to gun violence in the U.S. over the last 13 years; over 100,000 in total.