Guns killed more Americans in 12 years than AIDS, war, and illegal drug overdoses combined. We've looked at those numbers a bit, but you can take this comparison even further: if you include all gun deaths (including homicides, suicides, and accidents), guns killed more Americans between 2001 and 2013 than terrorism, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, AIDS, and illegal drug overdoses combined:
Didn't know they made a gun that could shoot someone on its own.