Stats for days

Stats for days

by digby

After President Obama challenged the media to produce charts showing the difference in deaths from terrorism vs firearms such charts have exploded all over the internet. There is this one:



And this one:


But it's this one that remains the most shocking one to me: More people have been killed in gun deaths since 1989 than in all of America's wars since 1776 combined. Does that make any sense at all?