Murder stats

from 2011.  There was a group of unknown firearm.  I divided that number based on the the ratio of rifles and shot guns to hand guns and then added those sums into the handgun, rifle and shot gun category.

Total                 12,664
    total firearms            8,583
1    Handguns            7,738
2    Knives                 1,694
3    Other (who knows)               853
4    Personal - hands, feet, etc    726
5    Blunt objects  such as hammers    496
6    Shotguns            443
7    Rifles  (includes assault rifles)              402
8    Asphyxiation            89
9    strangulation            85
10    fire                75
11    narcotics            29
12    drowning            15
13    explosives            12
14    Poison                5
15    push or thrown out window    2

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Brian