All firearm deaths
Number of deaths: 31,347
Deaths per 100,000 population: 10.2
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm
and the CDC's source:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60_03.pdf
if you dig into their source, it says in 2009, the homicides committed with firearms was 11,493
Quote:
11,493
, very closer to the FBI numbers.
My point is, just because it's official doesn't mean it's correct.
interesting note from the CDC 2009 source: there were
9,000 suicides committed by suffocation that year.
total suicides that year: 36,909
total homicides that year: 16,799
what do suicides and homicides have in common? bueller? bueller?