A few statistics for you from a magazine article in December, 2015:
- Since John Lennon was shot dead in NYC in December 1980, more than 1,150,000 Americans (civilians) have died in gun violence
- Since 1968, more American civilians have been killed in gun violence than all the casualties of all the wars in US history
- 90 Americans die every day in gun violence; that's about 33,000 per year