Also, note that out of the remaining 12K deaths (you rounded down a bit in your numbers) which would be homicides, only 8K were caused by firearms, and of that 8K, 5.5K of those were specifically caused by handguns.
So, my question to you is, why are the vast majority of leftist proposals to cut down firearm homicides being aimed towards semi-auto rifles, of which rifles only make up approx 0.25K (~3%) of the 8K firearm homicides, instead of turning their focus towards handguns, which make up approx 5.5K (~69%) of the 8K firearm homicides?
Now, let's also compare the rifle homicide rate to other types of homicide...
RIFLES: 0.25K
KNIVES: 1.5K
BLUNT OBJECTS: 0.4K
FISTS/FEET/ETC. 0.66K
Apparently knives, blunt objects, as well as our own hands and feet cause more homicides than rifles do... so why are rifles the main target for leftists? I'd like a leftist to explain this to me, and also explain why they completely ignore handgun homicides even though handguns make up roughly 70% of all gun related homicides...