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The odds that a gun will kill the average American may surprise you
Business Insider ^ | 25 Mar 2018 | Dave Mosher and Skye Gould

Posted on 03/25/2018 10:48:12 PM PDT by blueplum

....Teenage survivors of the Parkland shooting helped organize the nationwide marches, which came the same week Congress voted to lift a restriction on federal research into gun violence — a rule that's been in effect for about 22 years. It remains to be seen if lawmakers will fund such research by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after President Donald Trump signed a bill containing the measure into law. Below is some of the core data we do have on gun violence in the US (highlighted in red; suicides and accidents excluded), and how it compares to other causes of death for Americans:

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; guncontrol; gunstatistics; gunviolence; nra; secondamendment
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I'm posting the article for charts not so much article content.

I don't know how to pull the charts, but a quick summation: death by drugs 1 in 72 death by poisoning including OD 1 in 86 suicide 1 in 92 any motor vehicle accident 1 in 108 alcohol 1 in 123 murder 1 in 229 assault with a firearm 1 in 315

down in the bottom chart it equates firearm deaths as equal to chances of drowning, which isn't mentioned in the top chart

1 posted on 03/25/2018 10:48:13 PM PDT by blueplum
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In other words, 99.99% of us will die peacefully in our own beds.

The morbid fear of being shot to death is greatly exaggerated.


2 posted on 03/25/2018 10:54:19 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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And how many of those 1 in 315 are suicide? If I recall from other sources, by some counts, half of gun deaths are suicide.


3 posted on 03/25/2018 10:56:35 PM PDT by Reno89519 (If Trump can't deliver and folds like a typical Republican, maybe he should be impeached.)
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To: Reno89519

The 0.1% attracts a lot of media attention.

Something weird and out of the ordinary always does.

But that’s not true of life.


4 posted on 03/25/2018 10:59:25 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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bkmk


5 posted on 03/25/2018 11:11:10 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: blueplum

The democrats want us all in a constant state of fear.


6 posted on 03/25/2018 11:12:04 PM PDT by Trillian
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The best defense against gun violence is not breaking into someone’s house in the middle of the night.


7 posted on 03/25/2018 11:12:51 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Trillian

Unless you live in a violent-ridden American county, odds of reaching a normal expectancy are quite attainable.


8 posted on 03/25/2018 11:15:32 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop
The 0.1% attracts a lot of media attention.

Nawww. They're Progressives, A.K.A. Marxists, and one of their primary goals is to disarm the public. It always has been, because they know they can't meet their other goals with this first goal having been accomplished.

BTW, the media isn't mis-informed, they're not well-meaning, they are not ignorant. What they do is with intent and purpose. They are not basically good people. They mean conservatives harm. They mean to strip away the God-given inalienable rights that our Bill of Rights and Constitution guarantee to us.
9 posted on 03/25/2018 11:16:16 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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10 posted on 03/25/2018 11:18:48 PM PDT by vikingrinn
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To: Reno89519

good question. I think you’re right about the half. But that might be part of the ‘by suicide’ numbers?

Assault with a firearm might just be domestics, armed robbery deaths, gang deaths, maybe?


11 posted on 03/25/2018 11:23:04 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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I have never had a gun of mine kill anyone. Nor have I seen a gun drive to a location and kill anyone. I wish I could say the same about humans.


12 posted on 03/25/2018 11:25:24 PM PDT by Equine1952
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Or come home early from work.../s


13 posted on 03/25/2018 11:33:38 PM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: blueplum

This whole thing is so ridiculous. I wish it could all be ignored but we are always provoked and we take the bait.


14 posted on 03/25/2018 11:34:09 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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So we’re way more likely to be involved in a car wreck involving a drunk, or some bimbo, like the ones who showed up at the march in DC yesterday too preoccupied texting her BFF about the crazy sex she had the night before than we are facing the business end of a gun, let alone being shot at. When we took the firearms safety courses, and since we’ve been to the range I realized if driving safety was taken just half as seriously as gun safety our insurance premiums would be like chump change.


15 posted on 03/25/2018 11:46:11 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Islamophobic? NO! IslamABHORic)
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To: shanover

There are three things required to justify “deadly force”.
Ability. (Attacker is capable)
Opportunity. (Attacker is in your space. Within 21 feet)
Intent. (Shows or exhibits danger to you or those near you)

Until those are present you have no stool that will stand up in court in most places. Once one leg of the stool is missing you are required to stop.

If you carry please study your obligations in this reguard. Mosaad Ayoob has written books and knows his stuff.

If you have to defend yourself. You are going to jail.
How long you stay depends on how much you prepare to wear.


16 posted on 03/25/2018 11:53:32 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Carry, practice, back away if possible. Know before you go.)
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To: Reno89519

Next subtract those in Chicago
Then other gang related shootings


17 posted on 03/25/2018 11:54:10 PM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: blueplum

So why is gun control the elite’s top priority? The ruling class is not threatened by common peasants texting and driving or alchohol even though they kill more peasants. They are very threatened by a well armed and well informed citizenry. Its their priority, not ours.


18 posted on 03/26/2018 12:15:12 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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So why is gun control the elite’s top priority?


I believe it is mostly psychological. Guns in the hands of the citizens are a potent symbol of the power of individuals and the limits placed on state power.

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com.au/2017/12/gun-control-is-in-progressivisms-dna.html


19 posted on 03/26/2018 12:33:53 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: blueplum

Where is the abortion data?


20 posted on 03/26/2018 12:36:27 AM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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