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According to Harvard Health Policy Review, each year approximately 30,000 people in the United States die as a result of gunfire, and about 80,000 people are wounded

Joyce Beatty · A floor speech in the U.S. House of Representatives · January 14, 2013

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Checked against Not yet checked: CDC WISQARS nonfatal firearm injury estimates for the 80,000 wounded; the death half is on the record, with firearm deaths, all intents, at 31,672 in 2010 and 32,351 in 2011 (National Center for Health Statistics, Injury Mortality dataset nt65-c7a7).

The record: NCHS - Injury Mortality: United States (dataset nt65-c7a7), firearm deaths, all intents

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Topics: Guns.

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  1. Rep. Joyce Beatty says about 30,000 people die from gunfire each year in the U.S. · PolitiFact · 2013-02-08 · accessed 2026-09-25
  2. NCHS - Injury Mortality: United States (dataset nt65-c7a7), firearm deaths, all intents · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics · accessed 2026-10-15

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