How many people were murdered with handguns in the US in 2010?

Answer 1

It is all a matter of context: The 2010 statistics are not available yet, however the 2002 United Nations statistics stand at 9,369 (that's approximately .00268% of the US population and 56.6% of these were suicides--that's 5,303--4,066 were homicides and accidental shootings---about .0023% of all homicides).

For that same year:

696,947 were due to heart attack.

557,271 were due to cancer.

162,672 Cerebrovascular diseases

161,269 deaths caused by residential accidents.

124,816 Chronic lower respiratory diseases

73,249 Diabetes mellitus

65,681 Influenza and pneumonia

58,866 Alzheimer's disease

43,005 US traffic deaths.

40,974 Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis

33,865 Septicemia

27,257 Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis

20,261 Primary hypertension and hypertensive renal disease

17,638 All Assaults (homicide)

17,593 Pneumonitis

Additional information:2010 data is not available, yet. Here is some data from some previous years for all murders involving firearms (excludes suicides and accidents):

Year 2005 = 10,158

Year 2006 = 10,225

Year 2007 = 10,129

Year 2008 = 9,528

Year 2009 = 9,146

(Source FBI Uniform Crime Reports, Crime In the US, 2009)

More specific information:If by "killed" you mean "murdered" and not suicides or accidents, here is some data from previous years for murders only involving handguns:

Year 2005 = 7,565

Year 2006 = 7,836

Year 2007 = 7,398

Year 2008 = 6,800

Year 2009 = 6,452

(Source FBI Uniform Crime Report, Crime In the US, 2009)

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People kill people. The instrument used doesn't matter that much. You are just as dead from a Baseball bat as a handgun. Check the FBI Uniform Crime Statistics for a sample.