Nope.
'Gun Violence Archive' has discredited themselves by padding the numbers.
They include defense, suicide, and accidental deaths like this one in their list of "violent" deaths. It can be argued that these are not violence. While one can define 'gun violence' to include these as the GVA does, much of the audience will interpret violence as implied in 'violent crime'. So no, the 'Gun Violence Archive' is manipulating perception.
Suicides account for approximately 60% of total gun deaths each year while accidental deaths from firearms are estimated by researchers to occur at a rate of slightly more than 1 per day. When these statistics are used as an allusion to deaths caused by violent conflict, the figures are off by at least 167% (1/0.60) of the actual value.
