You have taken data and misconstrued it... 48,832 deaths by guns last year... just because it was one of the 26328 suicides doesn't mean it wasn't committed by a criminal (ever heard of murder suicide)... suicides would probably happen anyway... drugs for instance... so that leaves the 20,958 homicides... which is criminal... and unlike you imply that most of them were not criminals before and it was a first time act and using legally obtained guns... that's just conjecture and wishful thinking by the gun control lobby... the vast majority of shootings in the USA are done by criminals with guns as I stated.