ontrol has to be a part of any effort to reduce violence in our society.Those statistics include more than 30,000 people killed by firearms each year in the U.S. and more than 30 shot and killed each day, half between the ages of 18 and 35, a third under 20.In comparison, the average annual homicide rate by firearms is fewer than 50 in Japan, fewer than 150 in developed countries such as Germany,