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Thread #134853 Message #3072552
Posted By: Bill D
11-Jan-11 - 07:57 PM
Thread Name: BS: Stl thnk we dn't nd mre restrct gn laws?
Subject: RE: BS: Stl thnk we dn't nd mre restrct gn laws?
As a matter of interest... I looked up how to get statistics, and found The Center for Disease Control, which allows you to select areas...
I asked for:
10 Leading Causes of Violence-Related Injury Deaths, United States
1999 - 2007, All Races, Both Sexes...ages from 18-85
The top two were:
1)Suicide
Firearm
148,193
2)Homicide
Firearm
97,768
That's for 8 years...and it is only DEATHS..not gunshot wounds which were not fatal.
Total, 245,971... divided by 8...30,745 per year...divided by 365 = about 84 per day, most of which are only 'local statistics'.
Leave out suicides..(though family & friends might wish that a gun had not been handy).. and it's 'only' about 1/3 the total..maybe 25-30 per day.
Mass homicides are only a temporary spike in daily statistics. I wonder what the NRA thinks of those figures?