Posted on 05/02/2015 5:05:18 PM PDT by rktman
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) final report on death statistics for 2013 shows there were 35,369 deaths from motor vehicle accidents versus 505 deaths from the accidental discharge of firearms.
That is not a typo—35,369 versus 505. Americans are 70 times more likely to die in a vehicle accident than by the accidental discharge of a firearm.
Yet Michael Bloomberg, Moms Demand Action, and Everytown for Gun Safety have not uttered a peep about Ford, Dodge, or Toyota control. They are utterly consumed with a new gun control push framed around accidental firearm deaths.
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I recently read that medical malpractice in the USA kills something like 110,000 people a year.
I like that reply. A gun in my house is one that cannot hurt anyone unless he or she intends to hurt me or mine.
Amy new stats on deaths by doctor’s incompetence?
“Pardon me for asking the rude question, but since when was the CDC interested in deaths from causes that are clearly not diseases??”
Like any bureaucracy, they wish to grow. “Medicallizing” all aspects of life give them immense fields of growth. Because there is nothing that cannot be claimed to affect health or safety, all life becomes subject to their power.
They have been doing it for quite a while. When criminoligists found that “gun control” was not effective, and that benefits of gun ownership might be greater than the costs, the proponents of citizen disarmament attempted to transform it to a “public health” issue. That way they have eliminated rigorous inquiry and have avoided considering negative effects of their proposals.
A great deal of Bloomberg’s money is going into this attempt.
The 505 number is high.
From many jurisdictions, it probably includes the “stray bullet”.
From less honest cities, it may also include those struck by gunfire intended for someone else.
I would like to see the numbers of actual reports filed by legal gun owners under the (truly) Accidental Discharge category. I’ll bet that number is miniscule.
Wonder how many were self-inflicted, and of those how many were actually suicides.
Conflating the issue of accidental discharges with suicide only strengthens the CDC’s quest to remove more firearms.
Suicides that have demonstrable causes or ‘reasons’ are by definition not accidental.
I wonder how many motorcycle accidents/deaths per year?
I know. And I wouldn't put it past them to do that, but there will be cases where there isn't definitive evidence of one or the other.
It is my understanding is about 1/3 - one every 52 minutes.
Great post; thread. Thanks.
Ban cars?
See my #20, and Mark Twain’s #26 about “alcohol related”.
Yep. That way, the CDC can say there is an "epidemic of..." (whatever) and declare "something needs to be done!
Panic the herd, then steer them over the cliff...
Yep. They want automatic braking so you can't run the checkpoints...
Leave my auto manual, please.
I remember those days. Many have no clue how much freedom we have lost since then.
We can only take half of the grandkids to the Dairy Queen in the Suburban...(Which is why we have two).
This is a ridiculous comparison. You might as well compare murders by gun with murders by car. I’m sure that’s just as skewed in the other direction.
To heck with them and what they want. It’s all about what we want!
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