Were more Americans fatally shot by March this calendar year than died during DDay as the Washington post claimed? As above - seems either scary or unlikely? Is this claim accurate? Washington Post: More Americans were shot to death by March 6 this year than died on D-Day From the linked article: ![Line chart of US gun deaths over time w/DDay figures highlighted](

According to the CDC (Table 18) in 2013 there were 33,636 deaths due to firearms, of which 21,175 were suicides. That leaves 12,461 (of which 281 were "undetermined", so could have been suicide). 12,461 deaths per year is 34.1 per day. At that rate reaching 2,501 would take 74 days, which was March 15th.

The WaPo article claims that for this year the date was March 6th. That would be reasonable.