Americans are ten times more likely to die from firearms than citizens of other developed countries

[SecularMotion]

Gun deaths are a serious public health issue in the United States and the scope of the problem is often difficult to illustrate. A new study published in The American Journal of Medicine lays out the risk in concrete terms. When compared to 22 other high-income nations, Americans are ten times more likely to be killed by a gun than their counterparts in the developed world. Specifically, gun homicide rates are 25 times higher in the U.S. and, while the overall suicide rate is on par with other high-income nations, the U.S. gun suicide rate is eight times higher.

In order to help put America's relationship with guns into perspective, researchers from the University of Nevada-Reno and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health analyzed mortality data gathered by the World Health Organization in 2010. Investigators found that despite having similar rates of nonlethal crimes as other high-income countries, the U.S. has much higher rates of lethal violence, mostly driven by extremely higher rates of gun-related homicides.

The study reveals some stark truths about living and dying in the United States. When compared to other high-income nations, as an American you are:

• Seven times more likely to be violently killed

• Twenty-five times more likely to be violently killed with a gun

• Six times more likely to be accidentally killed with a gun

• Eight times more likely to commit suicide using a gun

• Ten times more likely to die from a firearm death overall

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160202090811.htm

[Tortmaster]

1. Owning a gun is almost the most selfish thing someone could do.

Especially if they have a family. It's like walking in a lightning storm, or, if you have a family, making your family walk in a lightning storm.

Thanks for the data, SecularMotion! The Republicans haven't killed off all research into gun violence. At least not yet.

[hack89]

3. Compared to, say, giving car keys to teen drivers?

I know what kills people where I live and it is not guns.

[GGJohn]

4. LOL,

and another anti gun rant.

[beevul]

7. Misrepresentations like that one are worse.

Wanting to restrict the rights of tens of millions of people that you don't even know and have never met because you hate guns, is the most selfish thing someone could possibly do.

[Tortmaster]

9. I didn't say anything about restricting your rights.

You can do whatever you want to do, even if it is one of the most selfish acts you can take.

It is up to you.

[beevul]

10. Did someone say you did? N/T

[Tortmaster]

12. Yes. You did!

And all I was doing was pointing out how selfish it is to own a gun.

Especially if you have a family.

[beevul]

13. Quote it please.

All I was doing was pointing out how selfish it is to want to restrict the rights of tens of millions of people that you don't even know and have never met because you hate guns.

Perhaps you confused "you" in the general sense, with "you" meaning "you the poster".

[pablo_marmol]

8. "The Republicans haven't killed off all research into gun violence. At least not yet."

^^ Yet another Controller who's unaware that the research most antagonistic to gun restriction theory has been conducted by liberal criminologists.

Even if the media were honest and even-handed in the manner in which they present information on gun violence, The True Believers would simply ignore the truckloads of evidence that refute their f-witted theories. There is hardly a lack of good research here ---- simply character deficiency proven by the manner in which this evidence is suppressed.

[Tortmaster]

11. I was not, with this post, talking about ...

... gun control.

I was talking about how selfish it is of gun owners to have them.

Especially if they have a family.

[pablo_marmol]

14. Whatevah.

I'm really getting a kick out of you thanking our hit-and-run poster for garbage data!

[ileus]

2. And some regressives want to disarm us.

[DonP]

5. Wow! Another "Study" showing how "Gunz R Bad", Quelle Surprise?

This is what, the 1,342nd cut and paste study proving guns are bad you've trotted out? Or did I miss one or two when I was at Camp Perry last year?

If the gun control crowd could only convert all their beloved "studies", "research" and basement blog "editorials" into any actual support or action in the real world, they might have just enough weight to hold the garage door open on a calm day.

Let's see, academics want more gun control, people that are on the Brady or Bloomberg payroll want more gun control, because they're paid to by a Megalomaniac that may wind up costing us the November election if he gets into it.

I always find it interesting that these studies always seem to manage to overlook the tens of millions of deaths for the last century from the governments they now work for killing their own citizens. But I guess using gas, bombs and forced starvation doesn't count as much as being shot by a crook to gun controllers.

[beardown]

6. Because Americans are better shots?

So is the poster proud of our marksmanship?