I wonder if shooting deaths have ever surpassed drunk driving deaths in a year?

[captain queeg]

[SheltieLover]

1. Great question!

[Walleye]

2. I'm pretty sure the gunshot deaths amounted to more than traffic deaths last year

Safer. I guess I’ll have to look it up and I remember seeing figures something like 35,000 for cars and 45,000 for guns. That has changed places since the cars and become so much

[brewens]

7. If not, we're working on it. Wait until next year. If it is a drunk driver road rage shooting

how do we count that? It's a matter of time for that one too.

[Walleye]

9. That's a good question. I bet alcohol is involved in a lot of these incidents

[Ms. Toad]

10. In 2020 it was 45,222 firearm deaths to 40,698 from ALL traffic accidents.

Drunk driving deaths are a fraction of all traffic accidents.

So at least in 2020 (and likely last year) firearm deaths exceeded drunk driving deaths.

[Walleye]

12. Yes because cars are so much safer now due to all those "burdensome regulations"

God doesn’t want us to make guns safer apparently

[Ms. Toad]

13. Unlike cars, making guns safer would defeat the purpose.

Only partly

[captain queeg]

15. Wow I'm surprised. There's some grey areas, like drunk drivers shooting people

But I really thought shootings hadn’t caught up with drunk crashes. I guess that’s another grey area, not all crashes are due to drunks. But holy shit. The reason I asked was when I was a young reckless guy you’d often be told by the police to go have some coffee or something. Then there was a national uproar and laws changed. We need something like that now. Of course the liquor and beer companies didn’t lobby congress to avoid restrictions like the NRA does.

[Hekate]

3. You could look up the old stats pretty easy

[lapfog_1]

4. probably almost any year from recent times

for example 2018... drunk driving fatalities 10,511



deaths of all types from gun violence 39,740, 24,432 by suicide and 13,958 by homicide.

https://efsgv.org/report/gun-violence-in-america-2018-data-brief-january-2020/

[brewens]

8. A few of those are always guys that happened to be a little over the limit and the accident was

unavoidable. It happens.

[patphil]

5. Here are some statistics

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/

https://www.bankrate.com/insurance/car/drunk-driving/

Gun related homicides are nearly double the number of deaths caused by drunk drivers.
And that doesn't included suicide or accidental deaths.
If you include all categories of gun related deaths, it's 4 times the number killed by drunk drivers.

[Walleye]

11. I thought I read that somewhere thanks

[leftyladyfrommo]

6. Gunshot is the leading cause if death for 19 and under. nt

[viva la]

14. We WANT to make autos safer.

We don't want them to kill people, so they are safer every year. And even with more miles driven every year, the death number remains about the same, meaning the lethality reduces constantly.

Guns get more dangerous, almost by intention.