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These are some mind-boggling statistics that were tabulated by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. It compares gun deaths in America during one 18 year period -- 1979 through 1997 -- to the numbers killed in ALL of America's wars throughout our history, excluding Afghanistan and Iraq, as the list was drawn up prior to those little adventures (I added them at the bottom anyway).
Does it have anything to do with the current gun-to-person ratio in this country of 1:1? Does it have anything to do with the fact that the most powerful lobby in our nation's history has been purchasing, intimidating, blackmailing, and manipulating our Congress to carry out their agenda... to legislate practically ZERO regulations on their surrogate penises?
American Wars
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Revolutionary War (1775-1783) 4,435 killed
War of 1812 (1812-1915) 2,260 killed
Mexican War (1846-1848) 1,733 killed
Civil War (1861-1865) 140,414 Union Forces killed, 74,524 Confederate Forces killed
Spanish-American War (1898) 385 killed
World War I (1917-1918) 53,513 killed
World War II (1941-1946) 292,131 killed
Korean War (1950-1953) 33,651 killed
Vietnam War (1961-1977) 47,369 killed
Lebanon (1982-1984) 264 killed
Grenada (1983) 18 killed
Panama (1989-1990) 23 killed
Desert Storm (1991) 148 killed
Total: 650,858 killed*
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Gun Deaths in America from 1979 to 1997 (includes suicides)
1979 — 32,689 killed
1980 — 33,477 killed
1981 — 33,778 killed
1982 — 32,682 killed
1983 — 30,842 killed
1984 — 31,078 killed
1985 — 31,324 killed
1986 — 33,126 killed
1987 — 32,638 killed
1988 — 33,757 killed
1989 — 34,471 killed
1990 — 36,866 killed
1991 — 38,077 killed
1992 — 37,474 killed
1993 — 39,358 killed
1994 — 38,187 killed
1995 — 35,957 killed
1996 — 33,750 killed
1997 — 32,166 killed
Total: 651,697
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Including the 6,657 killed in the Iraq War and Afghanistan, the total jumps to 657,515.
Karma perhaps?
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