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To: SkyDancer
Cars? 2017 = 37,461 car deaths.

Are there more vehicles in the US than guns? This is statistically significant.

18 posted on 02/20/2018 11:40:11 AM PST by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: rarestia
Cars? 2017 = 37,461 car deaths.
Are there more vehicles in the US than guns? This is statistically significant.

There are about 300 million firearms and about 260 million total vehicles (including about 130 million registered passenger vehicles) in America today.

27 posted on 02/20/2018 11:54:12 AM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: rarestia
Overall, there were an estimated 263.6 million registered passenger vehicles in the United States in 2015.

As for guns:347 million, long guns are not registered so couldn't be counted. That’s the 2012 figure. Of those, how many were used to kill? On average there are nearly 13,000 gun homicides a year in the U.S.; that's not considering suicides and accidents. Gun accidents were about 516 people in 2012 and suicides amounted to:21,334.

If people want to kill themselves and no gun is available they'd be finding some other method. There were 42,773 recorded suicides in the U.S. in 2014.

This is by no means to belittle the loss of life but putting the onus strictly on guns is misleading.

33 posted on 02/20/2018 12:04:41 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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