If you dishonestly expand the definition of a word, you can create any statistic you want.

Meanwhile, roughly as many people are killed in automobile accidents as there are gun deaths (of any kind, including suicide) every year.

Statistically, you likely don’t know a single person killed by a gun or a car. I absolutely do not.

Now, heart disease? Statistically you’re unlikely not to know someone who died from it.

In reality, you’re not going to be a random victim of gun violence. Gun homicides primarily consist of internecine violence between criminal elements who primarily use handguns.

Finally, there’s been a large rise in gun homicides over the last few years coinciding with a large rise in violent crime in general. Solve the crime issue, you solve the gun homicides.