Total deaths - 2,423,712
Assault by discharge of firearm - 12,632
Cardiovascular disease - 806,156
Malignant neoplasms (Cancer) - 562,875
Appears the Surgeon Gen is dishonest if he thinks .5% of deaths (by firearms) constitute a public health issue
Stats here: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0121.pdf
I got some bad news for vivian murtha. Despite all the advances in medicine, the death rate world wide remanins at-——100%. No cure yet dumbass.
In 2006 the Department of Justice issued a report on violent felons in large urban counties. It covered the period from 1990 to 2002, and included the 75 most populous counties in the United States. The study accounted for over half of all the murders in the United States in the covered period.
Revealed in the study was a simple breakdown of the demographics of the murderers that is not commonly available. Murderers were divided into three groups. Blacks were the most numerous at 46%. Hispanics were next at 27 percent. Non-Hispanic whites were last at 23 percent.
While the study does not account for all murders in the period studied, it accounts for more than half and almost certainly slightly understates the percentages of Black murderers, because the latest FBI statistics (for 2010) show that when all the murders in the U.S are taken into account, the percentage of Black murderers is over 53 percent.
The surgeon general has a poor understanding of statistics and demographics. Or else he is a liberal racist......