That's how many Americans were killed by guns since the Newtown shooting massacre when 20 children were shot and killed, many of them more than 10 times, their tiny bodies destroyed beyond recognition.
Here you can read some of the stories of recent victims.
By comparison, 2,191 U.S. troops were killed in Afghanistan since 2001. We exceeded that KIA figure in just 3 months in the homeland, where we are definitely not secure.
UPDATE (03.24.2013): Slate and the Twitter feed @GunDeaths have been crowdsourcing gun-deaths data, and on March 7, they came up with the figure of at least 2,923 Americans killed by guns since Sandy Hook. That's about as many Americans who were killed on 9/11, which sent us into spasms of rage and remorse and precipitated two disastrous wars that cost trillions of dollars. Yet the same number of deaths at home in the span of about 3 months doesn't give us a moment's pause.
By Jason Cherkis
March 22, 2013 | Huffington Post
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