Death from guns vs. death from wars

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristoff commented on the prevalence of gun violence in the United States.   We all know it's higher than other advanced countries by many times, but this comparison still surprises:

"More Americans have died from guns in the United States since 1968 than on battlefields of all the wars in Americn history."

Here are the stats:   1,516,863 deaths from guns;  1,396,733 total war deaths from the Revolutionary War through August 2015 in the Middle East.    The AJC PolitiFact says the figures are correct.

"Deaths from guns" includes suicides, that's true.   But the point here is not so much the prevalence of murder vs suicides but the easy availability of guns as it contributes to deaths, suicides as much as murder.

Ralph