There are about 30,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms, this number is not disputed.
U.S. population 328 million as of January 2018.
Do the math: 0.00915% of the population dies from gun related actions each year.
What is not insignificant, however, is a breakdown of those 30,000 deaths:
• 22,938 (76%) are by suicide which can't be prevented by gun laws.
• 987 (3%) are by law enforcement, thus not relevant to Gun Control discussion.
• 489 (2%) are accidental.
So "gun violence" isn't 30,000 annually, but 5,577... 0.0017% of the population.
Still too many? Let's look at location:
• 298 (5%) - St Louis, MO
• 327 (6%) - Detroit, MI
• 328 (6%) - Baltimore, MD
• 764 (14%) - Chicago, IL
That's over 30% of all gun crime in just 4 cities.
But what about other deaths each year?
• 70,000+ die from a drug overdose.
• 49,000 people die per year from the flu.
• 37,000 people die per year in traffic fatalities.
• 250,000+ people die each year from preventable medical errors.
You are safer in Chicago than when you are in a hospital!
• 610,000 people die per year from heart disease.
We don't have a gun problem... We have a political agenda and media sensationalism problem.