[ASA Vet]

My previous post shows how statistics can be used to show anything.
Those 43 Presidents were over a 215 year period not just one year.
The rate per 100,000/year computes to 32.6 for US Presidents.

[fish hawk]

It's not really "how many were killed" but the potential of danger and risk to be killed. Do you think that if any number of people had the chance they would try to harm President Bush? And I don't mean just foreigners. America has enough kooks on its own. I'd be willing to bet that if not heavily protected as they are, all of them would have been killed right up to today. God forbid.

[CurlyDave]

The rate per 100,000/year computes to 32.6 for US Presidents.

Could you explain how you did that calculation?

First see post 23--four were murdered. Reagan was shot but survived, so that doesn't count as a murder although it adds to the danger.

I get 4 job-related deaths in 215 years. If I divide 100,000 man-years by 215 and multiply by 4, the result is 1860 job related deaths per 100,000 man-years.

This clearly tops the chart for job-related deaths.