Karl Miller’s last column ended with the statement: “a gentle reminder: 64,999,987 American gun owners killed no one yesterday, nor today, nor will they do so tomorrow.” Unfortunately, we must have 65,000,080 gun owners because 95 of them did kill someone on each of those days (assuming those days are average). At approximately 34,500 gun deaths per year, according to StateMaster.com, we average 95 per day. That is 285 for the 3-day stretch mentioned in Mr. Miller’s column. About one-third are murders.
LETTER: Are concealed weapons allowed in the House?
Monday, April 27, 2009 | 11:38 a.m. CDT;
updated 1:59 p.m. CDT, Monday, April 27, 2009
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