Yes, the US "only" has about 9,999 thousand firearm homicides a year. But it has 35,000 firearm deaths, after adding in suicides and accidents. As the Children's Defense Fund pointed out a few years ago, that's about 1.25 million people since MLK was murdered.
Also, the figures for Mexico here are vastly deflated. As always, question statistics.
Whew. For a moment I thought it was Alexandria, Virginia.
These may be better stats:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jul/22/gun-homicides-ownership-world-list
Yes, the US "only" has about 9,999 thousand firearm homicides a year. But it has 35,000 firearm deaths, after adding in suicides and accidents. As the Children's Defense Fund pointed out a few years ago, that's about 1.25 million people since MLK was murdered.
Also, the figures for Mexico here are vastly deflated. As always, question statistics.