Last year nearly 18,000 people died in the world from terrorism. This was a record high.
That figure includes all deaths by explosives along with every other means terrorists use to commit violence. This statistic also includes the entire world population of 7 billion people. It tracks violence in war zones, failed states and other troubled places where no real government exists, let alone regulations.
From 2000-2010, about 335,000 Americans died from firearms.
That means that the worst ever year for terrorism, which includes all terrorist violence, throughout the entire globe of 7 billion people, cost a little more than half as many lives as guns cost during an average year in one country, which happens to be the richest country in the world and an ostensibly functioning democracy.
I wrote this a few weeks back about why things have to change in America. It doesn’t have to be this way.