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Gunned down, not run down: The new face of American fatalities
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"The year 2015 may well be the first in recent U.S. history that firearms fatalities exceed traffic fatalities. Gun deaths by homicide, suicide or accident have been steadily increasing, following a low point in the year 2000, and are expected to top 34,000 by 2015. (The latest data from the ... Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the number in 2012 was 33,563.) Suicide comprises about two-thirds of these deaths."
"In contrast, deaths from motor vehicle accidents have dramatically declined in the same time period, and are expected to drop below 33,000 in 2015, based on the 10-year average trend. (Data from the CDC shows that motor-vehicle deaths declined by 22 per cent from 2005 to 2010 to a low of 34,935 in 2012.)" ... |
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xqqme
(1/6/2015)
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An interesting thing about statistics: various factors other than the specific summary items can and do affect the outcome.
Let's see what these numbers do alongside such details as...
- price of fuel per gallon,
- age of vehicle involved,
- safety technology incorporated into the vehicle,
- road design (k-rails, barriers, etc.),
- violation of traffic laws,
- total accidents (not just fatalities),
- etc...
If we find that, say, the newer vehicle designs and restraint systems account for a significant portion of the reduction in traffic death, that's a good thing, but not necessarily germane to an attack on firearm owners.
Also, as populations rise, real numbers can increase while rates (incidents per 1,000) decrease.
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| Comment by:
Millwright66
(1/6/2015)
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In a nation of well over 330 million inhabitants 33-odd thousand deaths isn't more than a statistical hiccup. Then remove the majority of those as "suicides" (which only means the you're condemning the instrumentality-not the act- which anyone familiar with suicide knows isn't significant) and the remainder still has to be filtered for SBCs, police shootings, etc that will further reduce the "number".
IOW, how is any of this germane to private gun ownership and use ? That vast majority of legal gun owners and their guns that are never involved in any sort of altercation or accident involving firearms ? |
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