NBC Nightly News mentioned in its coverage of that California Doctor sentenced for multiple counts of murder for over-prescribing pain drugs that 44 people per day die of pain medication overdose.
That is more dead people, by a healthy margin, than the people murdered with firearms each year. And that includes with “assault” weapons with “large capacity” magazines.
And even 44 per day pales in comparison to the total dead each year due to “medical misadventure” of all kinds.