TTAG writer and open carry advocate Dean Weingarten has assembled some gun-related stats for your end-of-the-year dining and dancing measure. Make the jump to chart the ch-ch-ch-changes . . .
Total private guns in the United States, 390 million
Murder rate in the U.S. 2015 4.5 per 100,000 FBI
Murder rate in the U.S. 1993 9.5 per 100,000 FBI
Murder rate in Brazil (latest) 25.2 per 100,000 Wikipedia
Murder rate in Mexico 2012 21.5 per 100,000 Wikipedia
Number of people with Concealed Carry permits in the United States: 12.8 million CrimeResearch.org study
Number of States where no permit is required to carry concealed or openly: 10
CrimeResearch.org study
Number of states who issue carry permits – 49
Number of states where open carry of firearms is legal: 44 in 2015, 45 with the addition of Texas on 1 January, 2016. Opencarry.org map
Number of NICS background checks in 2015 22.6 million (pdf) FBI
Number of police killed with their own guns in 2014 – 1 FBI
Number of times guns used to stop crime or for defense: 1.5 million CDC(pdf)
Suicide rate in the United States 12.1 per 100,000 suicide.org
Suicide rate in France 12.3 per 100,000
Suicide rate in Japan 18.5 per 100,000
Suicide rate in South Korea 28.9 per 100,000
U.S. Fatal Firearm Accident rate in 2015 .2 per 100,000 Gun Watch
U.S. Fatal Firearm Accident rate in 1932 2.5 per 100,000
Michael Bloomberg Dollars devoted to restricting the Second Amendment, 50 million: Forbes
Percent who believe concealed carry of guns makes people safer: 53% Gallup
Percent who think concealed carry makes people less safe: 41% Gallup
Number of guns stolen or lost per year: 200,000 governing.com
Murders committed with handguns: 6,115 FBI UCR
Murders committed with shotguns: 366
Murders committed with rifles : 367
Murders committed with (hands,fists,feet,etc.) 769
Murders committed with blunt objects: 549
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