30,000 Americans die from firearms each year
A release from Stop Handgun Violence in response to the school shooting noted "If this country has not yet hit a tipping point on gun violence, it never will."
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It cites a series of troubling statistics about gun violence:
Every day 150 Americans are shot and 83 (including 8 children) are killed by firearms:
Every year an average of 30,000 Americans (including over 3,000 children) die from firearms
Since former Congresswomen Gabby Giffords and others were shot in Tucson, AZ (Jan. 2011) there have been over 65 mass shootings in America-3 every month.
Since 1970 over 1.4 million Americans have been killed with firearms-more than all US service men and women killed in all foreign wars combined.
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