The high-profile tragedies that glue us to the TV screen are a very small part of the overall [homicide] problem, and they're not representative of it. If you take Sandy Hook and the Oak Creek Sikh temple shooting and Aurora and Virginia Tech and Columbine, 95 people were killed in those shootings. And each of those deaths is horrific. But we lose on average 88 per day to firearm violence.
Professor Garen Wintemute as quoted in an article by NBC News reporter Bill Dedman, December 12, 2013
Professor Garen Wintemute as quoted in an article by NBC News reporter Bill Dedman, December 12, 2013
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