2aguy
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- Jul 19, 2014
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LOLOL”cars are more dangerous than guns.”Great, now look at intentional deaths.... cars, very few.... guns, in the tens of thousands.The WISQARS report system has been updated for the 2017 year of death....... and guns are again the lowest accidental death compared to just about every other way people accidentally die.....even by gravity....
Again...close to 600 million guns in private hands...and now over 17.25 million people carrying them for self defense.....
WISQARS (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System)|Injury Center|CDC
Guns....486
Cars....38,659
Poison...64,795
Fall (Gravity) ...36,338
Suffocation...6,946
Fire....2,902
Struck, by or against...819
Bicycle...345
And as to suicide........
Guns....23,854
Non-gun...23,231
Accidental gun death by year...
https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/leading_causes_death.html
2017...486
2016 495
2015...489
2014.....461
2013 ..... 505
2012 ..... 548
2011 ..... 591
2010 ..... 606
2009 ..... 554
2008 ..... 592
2007..... 613
2006..... 642
2005 ..... 789
2004 ..... 649
2003 ..... 730
2002 ..... 762
2001 ..... 802
2000 ..... 776
1999 ..... 824
Yes.....cars are more dangerous than guns...the intentional, illegal use of guns doesn't even come close to how many people are killed in accidents with cars....and we allow 15 year olds to drive them...
Ban cars, they are deadlier than guns...
That is beyond retarded.
Motor vehicle traffic deaths
- Number of deaths: 38,748
- Number of deaths: 38,658
Now factor in how more frequently cars are used versus how frequently guns are used.
Then factor in how the vast majority of car deaths are accidental while the vast majority of gun deaths are intentional.
Then factor in how many regulations are in place to make cars safer to reduce the number of car related death; while the right fights any and all regulations on guns to reduce the number of firearm related deaths.
And if 38,000 people died from cars intentionally each year, there would be a call by many to ban cars.[/QUOTE]
See.....now you went full moron.....you had to put suicides into your number on gun deaths...when guns are not an issue in suicide...since other countries with extreme gun control, Japan, Korea, China, all have higher suicide rates than the U.S.....and....
Fact Check, Gun Control and Suicide
There is no relation between suicide rate and gun ownership rates around the world. According to the 2016 World Health Statistics report, (2) suicide rates in the four countries cited as having restrictive gun control laws have suicide rates that are comparable to that in the U. S.: Australia, 11.6, Canada, 11.4, France, 15.8, UK, 7.0, and USA 13.7 suicides/100,000. By comparison, Japan has among the highest suicide rates in the world, 23.1/100,000, but gun ownership is extremely rare, 0.6 guns/100 people.
Suicide is a mental health issue. If guns are not available other means are used. Poisoning, in fact, is the most common method of suicide for U. S. females according to the Washington Post (34 % of suicides), and suffocation the second most common method for males (27%).
Secondly, gun ownership rates in France and Canada are not low, as is implied in the Post article. The rate of gun ownership in the U. S. is indeed high at 88.8 guns/100 residents, but gun ownership rates are also among the world’s highest in the other countries cited. Gun ownership rates in these countries are are as follows: Australia, 15, Canada, 30.8, France, 31.2, and UK 6.2 per 100 residents. (3,4) Gun ownership rates in Saudia Arabia are comparable to that in Canada and France, with 37.8 guns per 100 Saudi residents, yet the lowest suicide rate in the world is in Saudia Arabia (0.3 suicides per 100,000).
Third, recent statistics in the state of Florida show that nearly one third of the guns used in suicides are obtained illegally, putting these firearm deaths beyond control through gun laws.(5)
Fourth, the primary factors affecting suicide rates are personal stresses, cultural, economic, religious factors and demographics. According to the WHO statistics, the highest rates of suicide in the world are in the Republic of Korea, with 36.8 suicides per 100,000, but India, Japan, Russia, and Hungary all have rates above 20 per 100,000; roughly twice as high as the U.S. and the four countries that are the basis for the Post’s calculation that gun control would reduce U.S. suicide rates by 20 to 38 percent. Lebanon, Oman, and Iraq all have suicide rates below 1.1 per 100,000 people--less than 1/10 the suicide rate in the U. S., and Afghanistan, Algeria, Jamaica, Haiti, and Egypt have low suicide rates that are below 4 per 100,000 in contrast to 13.7 suicides/100,000 in the U. S.
So you have to use suicide, that has no bearing on actual gun use......to blow up your number......