I just added it up: Since 1968 there have been about 1.4 million gun deaths in the US (avg 28,571 per year). Since the founding, about 1.3 million Americans have been died because of war (5,372 per year).
For mass shootings in the US since 1968, we have just under 1,000 deaths with 964 in 157 shootings for just under 20 a year.
To give a bit of perspective, 99,000 people die from an infection they caught at the hospital per year in the US. Yes, seeing a doctor is more dangerous than mass shooting.
For Democide, going with low estimates from Wikipedia...
In just under six years (1939 to 1945) Nazi (meaning National Socialist) killed off more than 9 million people. 1.5 million per year.
The Soviet Union killed between 3 and 20 million people between 1917 and 1992. 40,000 to 266,667 people per year.
Communist China killed approximately 4 million people 1949 and 1976. This number might be VERY low, some say it's upwards of 100 million. 148,148 per year.
Pol Pot's Cambodia murdered between 1.4 and 2.2 million people in just four years, 1975 to 1979. 350,000 to 550,000 a year.
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