I blame the NRA for those pathetic numbers. If they were actively involved in Chicago in offering shooting classes, there wouldn't be so many non lethal shootings.........
Were it not for advances in modern emergency medicine, a vastly larger number would have expired.
Give some credit to the hospitals. Chicago has some excellent trauma centers skilled in gunshot wounds. Last year in Chicago there were “only”490” deaths. In 2010 we lost 498 in Afghanistan, Chicago only 437, down from 460 in 09. The only year murders in Chicago was less than our deaths in Afghanistan. Most years it’s not close.