Number of guns: 260 million
Number of gun owners: 80 million
Number of Homicides using firearms: 8,775
Number of white persons: 241,747,756
Number of homicides by white persons: 4,849
Number of black persons: 40,445,666
Number of homicides by black persons: 5,770
Number of males: 151,781,326
Number of homicides by males: 9,972
Number of females: 156,964,212
Number of homicides by females: 1,075
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Odds of any particular gun being used to murder you: 0.0034%
Odds pf any particular gun owner murdering you: 0.0110%
Odds of any particular white person murdering you: 0.0020%
Odds of any particular black person murdering you: 0.0142%
Odds of any particular male murdering you: 0.0066%
Odds of any particular female murdering you: 0.0007%
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Draw your own conclusions.
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(All numbers for in the US and, where applicable, per year: most numbers for 2010)
Free Northerner 
August 25th, 2012 at 06:09
Great numbers useful info thanks.
August 30th, 2012 at 04:00
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September 1st, 2012 at 19:39
Probably need to include attempted murders involving firearms with the murders. I strongly suspect modern medicine has been lowering the murder rate and increasing the attempted murder rate for some time. Even when combined however, the murder rates will still be astonishingly low.
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