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safeinOhio

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12. Gun deaths are getting ready to surpass auto deaths

Sat May 30, 2015, 02:44 PM

May 2015

Car crashes killed 33,561 people in 2012, the most recent year for which data is available, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Firearms killed 32,251 people in the United States in 2011, the most recent year for which the Centers for Disease Control has data.

But this year gun deaths are expected to surpass car deaths. That's according to a Center for American Progress report, which cites CDC data that shows guns will kill more Americans under 25 than cars in 2015. Already more than a quarter of the teenagers—15 years old and up—who die of injuries in the United States are killed in gun-related incidents, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/americas-top-killing-machine/384440/

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Another silly gun bill has been introduced.. [View all] virginia mountainman May 2015 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author GGJohn May 2015 #1

Might just reduce the amount of guns and the amount of deaths katmondoo May 2015 #2

How? GGJohn May 2015 #3

Facts do not seem to matter Duckhunter935 May 2015 #6

Can you back that up? Duckhunter935 May 2015 #5

Gun deaths are getting ready to surpass auto deaths safeinOhio May 2015 #12

Cars are getting safer Duckhunter935 May 2015 #14

Don't they also count safeinOhio May 2015 #20

Probably not discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2015 #21

I doubt it Duckhunter935 May 2015 #22

Surpass implies that gun deaths rose to pass auto deaths. gejohnston May 2015 #23

Well lets see, we can do something about what you said Duckhunter935 May 2015 #24

Its that high capacity paracord... beevul May 2015 #25

Hmm, that will change the NRA narrative a bit. louis-t May 2015 #26

actually, they are gejohnston May 2015 #28

Facts are so hard for some to take. Duckhunter935 May 2015 #29

Typical gun nut. Spin, spin, spin.... louis-t May 2015 #30

Typical gun controller. Spin, spin, spin.... GGJohn May 2015 #31

Seems to happen a lot Duckhunter935 May 2015 #33

Need to check the manual. beevul May 2015 #35

Now, now Duckhunter935 May 2015 #32

I was born in 1960 gejohnston May 2015 #34

Best cure for "Wild West" fears is to quit watching the nightly news.... Eleanors38 May 2015 #8

Just a small correction discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2015 #27

100 mill was my best guess in the last 20 yrs. Eleanors38 Jun 2015 #37

cool discntnt_irny_srcsm Jun 2015 #38

So your fine with having insurance.. virginia mountainman May 2015 #9

no, it will reduce the number of legal guns gejohnston May 2015 #17

It would make the NRA a fortune hack89 May 2015 #36

Politicians don't always get it right rock May 2015 #4

Same problem as auto insurance HassleCat May 2015 #7

Huh? rickford66 May 2015 #10

Same vs. justified HassleCat May 2015 #11

Well, it will help the NRA Duckhunter935 May 2015 #13

While I have no issue in principle sarisataka May 2015 #15

Maybe the criminal element will... discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2015 #16

Yep, like how you put that Duckhunter935 May 2015 #19

Wonder what other rights she'd like us to pay for??? ileus May 2015 #18

Mahony doesn't understand kudzu22 Jun 2015 #39

It's not about "insurance", it's just another phony barrier for poor people to climb over DonP Jun 2015 #40