Li'l Beaver wrote:First of all I believe the 1.3 million figure is considerably inflated and certainly includes those killed by law enforcement and justified self defense shootings the first of which the gun grabbers support. Secondly if we go back to the civil War the total lives lost in combat is considerably greater than 1.3 million, in fact the lives lost in WWI and WWII alone would far exceed the 1.3 million figure.
The stat is for American lives, which seems to be about right...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta ... ies_of_war