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How many handguns are owned vs. semi-automatics, though?
Also should take out suicides by each type from the figure for such a comparison, since it's the threat to other people that causes concern.

As far as alcohol deaths, for such a comparison of which is more dangerous to the general populace / innocents, take out all the deaths to the drinkers themselves and only look at the deaths of other people they caused.

The alcohol deaths likely are still higher than gun deaths after that, but way more people drink way more often than they do fire a loaded gun.

Eating habits is another "self-inflicted" ill. While it makes medical care and insurance more expensive for all of us, some obese dude's poor eating habits that cause him to die young isn't really a danger to the rest of us.
If you want to be self-destructive, whatever. But people have some basic desires to you know...not be shot by a gun nut or crashed into by a drunk driver.