More Young Americans Now Die From Guns Than Cars

forbes.com ^ | 8/26/2015 | dan diamond

[rktman]

The United States is one of the greatest nations in the world. But compared to our peers, we’re one of the worst when it comes to gun violence.

In America, you can be shot at an elementary school. You can be murdered at a church or movie theatre.

You can even be executed on live TV — and yet there’s no real expectation of gun reform.

Gun-related violence and death is a real public health problem in America, researchers say. And these three charts illustrate why.

1. Gun-related deaths in America wildly outpace our peer nations

[rktman]

Hey asshat. There are NO peer nations. Idiot. And, you forgot the tired old meme of "With a gun in the house, there is a 15,000% more chance you'll get shot." Looks like this clown has been studying the Gun Violence Messaging guide book.

[BenLurkin]

Alternate translation: Americans Show Love of Mother Earth by Switching to Mass Transit

[Gaffer]

I just simply do not believe the assertion.

[knarf]

IF the stats are correct ... it is because of better operating cars being driven by better trained and operating operators and NOT by denying driver’s licenses and forbidding the manufacturing and sale of automobiles.

[Uncle Miltie]

Black

[BenLurkin]

Alternate translation headline:

(Need more coffee)

[LambSlave]

Well Dan, if you don’t like it feel free to move to one of those other “peer” nations.

[tanknetter]

If this guy thinks gun violence is bad in the US now, wait until he sees what happens when government tries to take them away ...

[subterfuge]

A gun puts a 78 year old, 98 pound woman on equal footing with a 6 foot 5, 300 pound thug. Its called FREEDOM.

[Perseverando]

What the headline should have been:

Godless, atheist Obama fans on murderous rampage in America - Prepare to defend yourselves!

[envisio]

Ban cars

[Olog-hai]

Diamond cites the Center for American Progress as his source.

[nascarnation]

[rktman]

Perhaps air bags on all firearms?

[dfwgator]

"I'm crushing your head..I'm crushing your head."

[envisio]

In this delusional liberal’s fantasy world, the thug has a right to terrorize the elderly woman.

[knarf]

It doesn't matter ...We Americans no longer have scripture as a basis for reason, understanding and speech patterns

A few day's bible reading and you'd be amazed at how you think and write.

That attempt at a negative headline was a positive for good guns in trained hands .... MORE of them in fact

[TheDon]

In America, you can be shot at an elementary school. You can be murdered at a church or movie theatre.

Too many "gun-free" zones in America.

[Qiviut]

Read the original article he’s using as a source - he’s “cherry picking” & manipulating (i.e. he’s using all gun deaths & traffic accident #s & attributing them to ‘young people’ to make his meme work). http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/americas-top-killing-machine/384440/

Though even as fatal transportation incidents dropped in 2013, they accounted for two in five fatalities in the workplace in the United States that year, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

CDC data on firearms offers a more complicated picture, in part because of how the agency categorizes causes of death. Gun deaths can include suicides, homicides, accidental firearms discharges, and even legal killings—but the overall data picture is incomplete.

It’s also true that as the gun homicide rate has declined in the United States, suicides now account for the majority of gun deaths, according to Pew.

Today, overall accidents are the fifth leading cause of death, according to CDC data. Americans are most likely to die from heart disease—followed by cancer, chronic respiratory disease, and stroke.

[Fiddlstix]

WOW! This Calls For Maximium BS Detection!