Here...actual numbers on illegal drug deaths....
CDC Press Releases
This is just heroin.....
In addition, heroin-related death rates increased 26 percent from 2013–2014, totaling 10,574 deaths in 2014.
Notice...total gun deaths in 2015......10,102
Then add in the other illegal drug deaths and you aren't even close....twit...
Opioid overdose deaths, including both opioid pain relievers and heroin, hit record levels in 2014, with an alarming 14 percent increase in just one year, according to new data published today in CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
The most commonly prescribed opioid pain relievers, those classified as natural or semi-synthetic opioids such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, continue to be involved in more overdose deaths than any other opioid type. These deaths increased by 9 percent (813 more deaths in 2014 than 2013).
Here ....gun murder 2015...
Expanded Homicide Data Table 8
Gun murder....9,616
Accidental gun death...
Leading Causes of Death | WISQARS | Injury Center | CDC
2015...489
2014.....486
2013 ..... 505
2012 ..... 548
2011 ..... 591
2010 ..... 606
2009 ..... 554
2008 ..... 592
2007..... 613
2006..... 642
2005 ..... 789
2004 ..... 649
2003 ..... 730
2002 ..... 762
2001 ..... 802
2000 ..... 776
1999 ..... 824
Suicide....
Leading Causes of Death | WISQARS | Injury Center | CDC
2015
Gun suicide...
22,018
Non Gun suicide...
22,078
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2014....
Gun suicide....21,334
non gun....21,439
We are comparing gun deaths to those resulting from use of Illegal Drugs......try to focus....
Yeah....and I showed you heroin deaths.....just one actual illegal drugs....you showed opioids which may or may not have been legal, prescription drugs......added to heroin deaths and your numbers get worse.....
Gun violence in the United States results in tens of thousands of deaths and injuries annually.
[1] In 2013, there were 73,505 nonfatal firearm injuries (23.2 injuries per 100,000 U.S. citizens),
[2][3] and 33,636 deaths due to "injury by firearms" (10.6 deaths per 100,000 U.S. citizens).
[4] These deaths consisted of 11,208 homicides,
[5] 21,175 suicides,
[4] 505 deaths due to accidental or negligent discharge of a firearm, and 281 deaths due to firearms use with "undetermined intent".
[4]