Remove suicides, gang violence committed with illegally acquired weapons, and "justified" cop homicides and that number goes way down.

The problem is the amount of problems that these groups try to pin specifically on guns themselves rather than the other issues that the guns are used in. You don't go and blame a car for drunk driving, you blame the person. You make awareness of how drunk driving is bad. But you don't ban alcohol (again...). By including suicides and using those as a reason to ban firearms, it ignores the fact that those people don't need a method to kill themselves removed, they need help. I would know, I spent years being suicidally depressed. A combination of family and amazing friends brought me through it, but not everyone is so lucky.

For that matter, combining homicides committed by known gang members with illegally acquired guns to statistics involving legally acquired guns makes little if any sense. These criminals broke the law repeatedly, couldn't acquire a firearm legally, and yet still got one elsewhere and used it in a crime. How illegal can something be? How would banning firearms stop a criminal from acquiring an illegally smuggled one? It doesn't.

There's plenty of data out there from the FBI and others that break it all down. Both sides twist the statistics and both sides put out tons of horseshit that do nothing to help the real issues involved or get to the underlying issues. Guns are not the problem in our country - gang violence, mental health, and poverty are the issues we need to tackle. Until we do there won't be a reduction in gang violence or suicide no matter how many gun laws or magazine restrictions or gun bans there are. Banning my AR-15 from having a bayonet mount and pistol grip isn't going to stop depressed Johnny from shooting himself in the head, or gang member Jimmy from committing a gang murder. But if we get Johnny some mental health help and counseling, maybe we can help him. And if Jimmy didn't grow up in poverty and see no way out but through a gang, then maybe Jimmy can grow up to be a helpful and productive member of society. It requires investment, hard work, and change over a generation or more. It won't be an instant or easy fix. But it would work to solve the real problem.