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America's Top Killing Machine
The Atlantic via MSN ^ | 1/17/15 | Adrienne LaFrance

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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KEYWORDS: adriennelafrance; america; atlantic; banglist; killing; machine
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To: Peter W. Kessler
Abortion mills weren’t included in the study, I guess.

Well Obola an his czars and cronies do not believe life begins until after two years old, a regular "Herodian" outlook!

Late term( or any) abortion, gang wars, the Afhgani War, war on drugs, terror, suicides and deaths from economy seem to be covered up.

21 posted on 01/17/2015 12:10:26 PM PST by Karliner ( Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28- 8:38"...this is the end of the beginning."WC)
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To: Libloather

Gov don’t care about your safety. In CA they give driver’s license’s to those with dementia...They could care less $$


22 posted on 01/17/2015 12:17:28 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Libloather

I believe medical malpractice kills many more.


23 posted on 01/17/2015 12:18:39 PM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Obama - "I will stand with the Muslims")
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To: Peter W. Kessler

nope -

Abortions KILL over 1 million PER year in this country-

never ever going to see that in the MSM-

in quite a few cities- new york being one of them—

THERE ARE MORE ABORTIONS than birth’s !


24 posted on 01/17/2015 12:20:17 PM PST by mj1234
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To: Libloather

Abortionists intentionally slaughter as many as are killed annually with guns in about a week and a half.


25 posted on 01/17/2015 12:20:21 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: mj1234

that should be MORE BLAck! ABORTIONS THAN BLACK bIRTH’S


26 posted on 01/17/2015 12:21:48 PM PST by mj1234
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To: mylife

I’m not sure it’s that high, but it’s probably around 50% at least. The suiciders could just as easily kill themselves some other way if they didn’t have a gun (maybe with a car).


27 posted on 01/17/2015 12:24:00 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: MNDude

Well, there’s your problem!


28 posted on 01/17/2015 12:37:39 PM PST by bray (Sharpton is a murderer)
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To: EternalVigilance

“Abortionists intentionally slaughter as many as are killed annually with guns in about a week and a half.”

We put up with the deaths that cars bring because the auto has a high cost for that freedom which is a great freedom. As do Guns, and the further freedoms that guns ensure by that right.
But this is where the anti-gun/pro-abortion crowd ends the discussion with me.
-A WEEK AND A HALF, gun deaths (which includes suicide) equal abortion MURDERs, which is a further distinction.
-and any gun I have will never harm, and only protect my grand daughters who’s lives I saved from abortions...

Liberalism is a mental disease.


29 posted on 01/17/2015 12:51:57 PM PST by Wildbill22 (They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton Williams Abrams)
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To: Libloather

I think with a little effort, we could make bacon the top killer of Americans. I am doing my part!


30 posted on 01/17/2015 12:53:15 PM PST by Seraphicaviary (St. Michael is gearing up. The angels are on the ready line.)
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To: mylife
2/3rds of these are suicide.

Exactly. Having a gun available might make suicide a bit easier for some, but if a person is bound and determined to kill himself, he'll probably find a way, perhaps with a high-speed car crash or a dive off a roof, either of which could harm others.

Conflating suicides by handgun with homicides by handgun is disingenuous at best, and dishonest at worst. It's akin to adding masturbation statistics to rape statistics.

31 posted on 01/17/2015 12:56:16 PM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree ( When dems win, it's a mandate. When we win, we must compromise.)
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To: Seraphicaviary

Don’t go there with bacon.

That would be civil war.


32 posted on 01/17/2015 12:57:29 PM PST by Wildbill22 (They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton Williams Abrams)
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To: ifinnegan; Libloather
...guns will kill more Americans under 25 than cars in 2015.”

Somehow I get the feeling <irony warning! > that if the guns in question were Chinese machine guns mowing down American conservatives, the author would have no prollem wid dat.

33 posted on 01/17/2015 1:20:45 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Car crashes killed 33,561 people in 2012... Firearms killed 32,251 people in the United States in 2011... guns will kill more Americans under 25 than cars in 2015.
Let's go Gruber, shall we? The demographic that is doing the killing and the dying will be whittling down future crime.
34 posted on 01/17/2015 1:27:23 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Libloather

Toss out obama’s sons numbers and then we’ll talk.


35 posted on 01/17/2015 1:35:03 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Libloather

Health care plans are mostly required to provided preventive care, including physicals that are free don’t they? So one of the big things they touted, they want you to skip?


36 posted on 01/17/2015 2:19:27 PM PST by vpintheak (Keep calm and Rain Steel!)
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To: Libloather
America's top killing machine:

Machine in action:


37 posted on 01/17/2015 2:57:24 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: Farmer Dean
Re: “Remove all the thug-killing-thug and drug related shootings.Where is the number then?”

Suicides are usually more than 50% of gun related deaths.

And, at least a thousand gun deaths per year are ruled to be self-defense.

Race is the biggest factor in USA gun murders.

The FBI statistics count all Hispanic murderers as “white.”

When Hispanics are subtracted, white Americans commit gun murders at just a slightly higher rate than white citizens of Switzerland.

38 posted on 01/17/2015 3:00:45 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: Libloather

Most gun deaths, a vast majority, are suicide. Had they not shot themselves the people would have swallowed lots of pills or found a high bridge.


39 posted on 01/17/2015 3:06:59 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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