Megadeath
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The suicides are an important part of the statistic, because they are often deaths that wouldn't happen without that easy access to firearms. Suicide is usually a snap decision by someone going through a crisis moment. The easier and quicker the means of suicide that is available, the more likely it is that there will be an attempt before they pass that moment. Gun suicides also have one of the highest "success" rates for any method of suicide.First, compare gun murders because "gun deaths" include the suicides that aren't going away without quite specifically punishing law-abiding citizens for society being fucked, then see what happens to the number when you take out the 14% demographic responsible for the plurality.
"Gun deaths" aren't remotely unusual for a first world country where it's a first world country. It's the ghettos being violent shitholes, not that the US has a stupid amount of guns.
@Bear Ribs on top of that previous explanation for why I believe suicide figures are relevant, even if we ignore them and use your figures we see that the US is 4-5 times more murderous than other first world countries and that's messed up.