Posted on 01/17/2015 11:30:40 AM PST by Libloather
For the better part of a century, the machine most likely to kill an American has been the automobile.
Car crashes killed 33,561 people in 2012, the most recent year for which data is available, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Firearms killed 32,251 people in the United States in 2011, the most recent year for which the Centers for Disease Control has data.
But this year gun deaths are expected to surpass car deaths. That's according to a Center for American Progress report, which cites CDC data that shows guns will kill more Americans under 25 than cars in 2015. Already more than a quarter the teenagers—15 years old and up—who die of injuries in the United States are killed in gun-related incidents, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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Husseincare will change all that.
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You cannot make this stuff up. First, Obamacare’s chief bioethicist, Ezekiel Emanuel, wrote that he wanted to die at 75–strongly implying we should too. Now, he is telling you to be as good as he is by refusing your annual Obamacare checkup. From his NYT piece,“Skip Your Annual Physical:”
Remove all the thug-killing-thug and drug related shootings.Where is the number then?
“...guns will kill more Americans under 25 than cars in 2015.”
Magical realism.
Guns and cars coming to life, going on killing sprees.
Gee, why don’t they talk about the sub-demographic of “Americans under 25” most likely to die from a firearm homicide, which is the same as the demographic most likely to commit same?
I guess #blacklivesdontmatter to The Atlantic, since they aren’t willing to honestly discuss the elephant in the living room.
How many lives have both guns and cars saved?
Thank goodness those guns haven’t learned how to drive.
Well, I’m glad to hear automobiles are becoming safer for operators, passengers and bystanders.
Take out the blacks and what is the number?
“Thank goodness those guns haven’t learned how to drive.”
Giving money and power to the government is like giving car keys and whiskey to teenage boys. - P. J. O’Rourke.
It’s all those African-American teenage males hopped up on marijuana. Just sayin’.
Abortion mills weren’t included in the study, I guess.
2/3rds of these are suicide.
“Remove all the thug-killing-thug and drug related shootings.Where is the number then?”
And then you have to discount the numbers because of the dearth in cars in South Chicago Neighborhoods. The people there have to “resort” to guns to do their killing.
Everyone should be “In a Yugo”
Socialism has automobiles beat by a factor of 100.
Take out the killings which occur in so called ‘gun free’ zones or are commited with ‘illegal’ weapons and what is the number?
My own WAG is about 75% of killings occur with ‘illegal weapons’ and in gun free zones.
2nd Amendment bump for later...
American Academy of Pediatrics wants to reclassify gun ownership and a risk to your kids health, in other words have the state take them away or loose the guns.
60% of gun homicides are black
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