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
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.
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.
bkmk
The democrats want us all in a constant state of fear.
The best defense against gun violence is not breaking into someone’s house in the middle of the night.
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.
This whole thing is so ridiculous. I wish it could all be ignored but we are always provoked and we take the bait.
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.
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.
Where is the abortion data?
down in the bottom chart it equates firearm deaths as equal to chances of drowning, which isn't mentioned in the top chart
Here ya go:
The whole firearms debate s NOT about firearms. Not at all. It’s about Lefties having a maniacal inner compulsion to sway policy and scr*w conservatives - who remain the most prolific firearms owners and enthusiasts.
People here should remember that gun control is almost always brought out as a means of attempting to divert public attention away from more serious issues challenging the political elite.
Last month’s tragedy and now the current push for more gun control involves the DNC wanting to divert attention away from their serious financial difficulties and divisions within their own party, plus potentially very damaging fallout related to scandals involving Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and even Florida congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Adam Lanza’s bloody rampage in December 2012 in Sandy Hook, CT involved Obama wanting to divert public attention away from continued perceived economic malaise and also again potentially very politically damaging fallout from the Benghazi massacre in September of that year (that ultimately helped to cost then Secretary of State Clinton her chance at the White House in 2016).
1999-2000-Columbine High School-Eric Harris’ and Dylan Klebold’s shooting spree in Littleton, CO was used by the Clintons as payback over the Monica Lewinsky affair and impeachment and also to soften Hillary Clinton’s public image in her campaign for the Senate seat in New York. The push for gun control then helped to cost Al Gore the White House and the Democrats the House in the 2000 election.
Remove either young blacks or a few counties/inner city and the data for gun assault falls completely off the chart.
If you avoid black/Hispanic gang bangers and inner city/ county crap holes, you should probably watch the sky for an asteroid rather than worry about guns.
Jes sayin
Of all firearms deaths only a small fraction are caused by rifles, and a smaller fraction by automatic rifles with ammunition size between a infantry weapon (M1) and a carbine, the definition of an assault rifle.
Dewey G. Cornell, Ph. D. is a forensic clinical psychologist and Bunker Professor of Education in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. Dr. Cornell is Director of the U.Va. Virginia Youth Violence Project and a faculty associate of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy. His research and teaching is concerned with the prevention of youth violence and bullying, as well as the facilitation of healthy student development and achievement through a supportive and structured school climate.
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Fake news. There has never been a restriction on gun violence research. The restriction has been on CDC advocacy, on spending money and manpower on propaganda.
A major function of the CDC is to create advocacy that tells people to cover their mouth when they cough, to wash their hands, to sneeze into the inside of their elbow, to tell us what to do.
The CDC has not been restricted to research into the number killed or injured by guns, nor research into the nature of each incident. The CDC has been restricted from telling us what to do about guns and gun violence.
Note that during this period the CDC has been relatively quiet about the big 2 avoidable killers: Sepsis and Opioids.
Sepsis and Facility originated infections are the #1 avoidable cause of death, disease, and cost of medical care. We go to the hospital with a broken leg or cut from a knife and acquire infection in the hospital and die.
In Jan 2001 the JCAH published a study paid for by Johnson & Johnson that said removal of all pain should be the #1 priority of all medical providers from psychiatrists to surgeons to dentists. Treating and curing the condition that causes the pain was put on a lower priority than pain removal.
The HHS of Bush adopted the JCAH guidelines and encouraged doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, dentists, pediatricians, gynecologists, urologists, surgeons, everyone to reduce pain on threat of losing your medical license and losing payment from Medicare, Medicaid, VA.
The HHS of Obama escalated the encouragement to mandatory.
Corporatist Big Government created the #2 cause of avoidable injury and death. But the CDC bureuacrats, and HHS bureaucrats, and Congress refuse to state the origin of the problem. They refuse to state that Big Government created this problem.