Thursday, October 5, 2017

How many have been killed by guns since 1968?

Here’s a summary of deaths by major conflict:

War                                      Deaths
Revolutionary War                4,435
War of 1812                          2,260
Mexican War                         13,283
Civil War (Union and Confederate, estimate) 750,00

Spanish-American War           2,446

World War I                           116,516

World War II                           405,399

Korean War                            36,574

Vietnam War                          58,220
Persian Gulf War                     383

Afghanistan War                     2,363
Iraq War                                 4,492
Other wars (includes Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, Somalia and Haiti)                                     362

TOTAL    1,396,733

Americans killed by guns from 1968 - 2015       1,516,863

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