U.S. gun deaths outnumber war dead

More Americans have died from gunshots in the last 50 years than
in all of the wars in American history. Gun-related incidents have claimed more than 1.5 million American lives since 1968

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WAR                   BATTLE DEATHS      WAR                BATTLE DEATHS
American Revolution                      World War I
1775-1783               4,435            1917-1918              116,516
War of 1812                              World War II
1812-1815               2,260            1941-1945              405,399
Indian Wars                              Korean War
approx. 1817-1898  est. 1,000            1950-1953               54,246
Mexican War                              Vietnam War
1846-1848              13,283            1964-1975               90,220
Civil War                                Desert Shield/Desert Storm                     
1861-1865             514,938            1990-1991                1,948
Spanish-American War                     Global War on Terror
1898-1902               2,446            Oct 2001-Nov 9, 2017     6,931

AMERICA’S WARS – 1775-2017 1,213,622
2017
DOMESTIC GUN DEATHS – 1968-2017 1,593,964


U.S. FIREARM-RELATED DEATHS
1968-1980    377,000            2014   32,394
1981-1998    620,525            2015   35,476
1999-2012    430,397            2016   36,861
2013          32,849            2017(to Nov 9) 28,462

Sources: Centers for Disease Control, Department of Veteran Affairs, icasualties

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