Gun Death Statistics

You may be surprised to learn different states have different gun laws and indeed different rates of gun violence. Even more surprisingly, the two things may not even be correlated. Also, gun numbers are often misleading by including suicides in death counts. If you are not a suicidal person, you have an extremely low chance of dying at the hands of a gun in the US.

"guns are used in about 2/3rd of suicides" - correlation does not imply causation, it is especially clear in this case

US gun death statistics suggest otherwise.

That is gun deaths, not gun homicides or mass shootings. Around 2/3rds of gun deaths are suicides. A suicidal person will choose the most effective and painless method available to them, so if they have a gun around, they'll use it. This is a totally different problem than gun violence, but many activists will conflate the two.

Take a look at how many people die from domestic shootings in the US

He mentioned "gun crime" not deaths. Most deaths are from suicide.

This isn't true. Shootings are very, very rare. And they are concentrated in certain types of places (e.g., poor urban ghetto) such that the parts of the country that aren't these places have vanishingly small probabilities of being hurt by a shooting.Gun murders in the U.S. are a very low percentage of deaths (0.39%) and preventable deaths (~1.1%, there's some disagreement about what's "preventable"). That's 0.0036% of the population per year gun-murdered.

Statistics about gun deaths or shootings have to be looked at critically. Such statistics include all gun deaths, not just the 'unjustified' ones. Suicide, personal defense, and police shootings are all included in those statistics.In my opinion, though, gun death statistics aren't the relevant statistics to look at anyway, it's violent crime statistics. Would the people who commit crimes with guns still commit them if they didn't have guns?

I think statistics say that you are much more likely to be killed by a gun if you have a gun Statistics from gun-control advocates, for what it's worth.

Is this a reference to shooting deaths? If so, you should be aware that there are ~100 mass shooting deaths a year despite the sensational coverage they get in the media. America does have many more gun deaths than other countries, but the majority of those deaths are suicides and a majority of the homicides are in high crime areas. This is a problem that we can address, but mass shootings, though tragic and terrifying, are not a large public health issue.