What CNN Won’t Tell You…

Expanded Homicide Data Table 8 (Source FBI Report)
Murder Victims
by Weapon, 2007–2011
Years	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Total	14,916	14,224	13,752	13,164	12,664
Total firearms:	10,129	9,528	9,199	8,874	8,583
Handguns	7,398	6,800	6,501	6,115	6,220
Rifles	453	380	351	367	323
Shotguns	457	442	423	366	356
Other guns	116	81	96	93	97
Firearms, type not stated	1,705	1,825	1,828	1,933	1,587
Knives or cutting instruments	1,817	1,888	1,836	1,732	1,694
Blunt objects (clubs, hammers, etc.)	647	603	623	549	496
Personal weapons (hands, fists, feet, etc.)1	869	875	817	769	728
Poison	10	9	7	11	5
Explosives	1	11	2	4	12
Fire	131	85	98	78	75
Narcotics	52	34	52	45	29
Drowning	12	16	8	10	15
Strangulation	134	89	122	122	85
Asphyxiation	109	87	84	98	89
Other weapons or weapons not stated	1,005	999	904	872	853
1 Pushed is included in personal weapons.
Over the 4 years covered by the data, homicides by firearms has declined ~ 15%

Source: Federal Bureau of Investigations

A final note just to put things into perspective:

1. In 2007 vehicle fatalities ( consists of motorcycles, people that died after 1 yr. and people that died within 30 days) was just over 90,000, this is .04% on a population of 250 million registered vehicles.
2. For the same year, 2007, all firearm homicides totaled 10,129 against a firearm population of 45 million, this is .02% (Note that I did not use accidental deaths which is ~1,500 a much lower number) If we add the 1,500 accidental deaths to homicides we get 11,629 or .0258%

Closing comments:

I would much rather spend time reviewing guns and gear but it’s important that you the reader understand and see through the manure being fed to the general public, either through incompetence or malicious intent to deceive. I want to think it’s incompetence. You  decide!