**As a note,Stoogeland kept numbers of gun deaths in the United States since Newtown and found they exceeded American deaths in both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Some blogger at Daily Kos came up with this goody. Mark Shields on Judy Woodruff's PBS show in 2012 claimed that Americans who died from guns,whether suicide, homicide or gun accidents,outnumbered Americans who were killed in all the wars in our history combined.
Politifact decided to fact check the claim and found it true. In American wars by 2012, some 1,171,177 were killed. In the United States,1,384,171 had been killed. Shields was right.
Let me repeat this--We are talking about domestic gun deaths since 1968 versus all the wars in our entire history. Houston, we have a big problem. This year marks the first time more teenagers will die from guns than automobile accidents.
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