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Posted on 10/27/2018 6:37:24 PM PDT by jmclemore
In 2018 alone, including the most recent carnage at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, there have been 47,220 gun-related incidents resulting in 11,984 deaths in the United States, according to data compiled by Gun Violence Archive, an independent data-collection and research group.
That breaks down to 157 incidents and 40 deaths a day and does not include 22,000 suicides. Of the total fatalities, 548 were children, while 2,321 were teenagers.
(Excerpt) Read more at marketwatch.com ...
For every “gun death”, 200 or so people defended themselves without killing anyone.
80,000 died from the flu last year...
I note that she doesn’t include ALL successful gun usage incidents (~2MM/year), only including the ones that result in a police report. Typical lying reporter.
....and how many are drug related...you know, drugs smuggled into the country by the cartels,the cartels that can’t wait for open borders the demonrats want...
...and ya won’t...
usually there are about 25-35,000 auto deaths a year (it has changed a lot over the past decade so I’m off a bit).
Drug Opioid deaths for either last year or this year were about 50,000+ (and the year isn’t over.
Suicides - the writer says 22,000 - so what. It’s not HOMICIDE. Just personal tragedies.
Re the 1,700 or so use of a gun (i.e. SHOOTING) in self defense. The writer is too stupid or biased to realize that this figure is not accurate, nor is it totally relevant since she didn’t provide figures (available from John Lott’s organization), about the non-shooting use of a gun for self defense occurred. That number should be in the tens of thousands.
Example. About 6 months after my son returned from combat in Iraq, a drunk, legal Mexican immigrant attacked his car smashing in one of his side windows. Before the guy could wind up and deliver his next punch, my son had his legally owned gun up and in the assailant’s face.
Due to his combat discipline, he didn’t shoot the man. He arrested him (custodial arrest) and held him for the police. No problem. The man admitted his guilt, pay for damages and got some kind of court sentence.
My son later became a federal police officer and when he and his team had problems with armed, mentally ill people, they drew their weapons but did not shoot. They tackled them from behind, disarmed them, and turned them over to the DC Police (they were mentally ill).
Ms. Chang had better do her homework about the real scope of guns and crime/violence before she opens her mouth. Sounding like a fool in print is no way to go through life.
Same here. Just hunting accidents.
Notice how all them economic types been joining the leftist MSM?
What’s usually missing from articles like this is perspective. Depending on the source you use there are 330 million Americans. On average, six thousand of us die each and every day. Some 80,000 people die each year from flu or flu related illness. Thirty-seven thousand die each year in traffic accidents. Big numbers are frightening because we usually don’t see anything in big numbers. I knew a woman who was a little girl when the big hurricane hit Florida in the twenties. As the train pulled out taking her and her mother away she saw stack after stack of corpses piled beside the rail line. And, yet, America survived. We have a hard time processing big numbers and keeping them in perspective is important.
My reply to the gun grabbers is that I’d be willing to give up my right to own a gun if the left gives up their right to kill babies in the womb.
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That is a bad bargain. One is a right written into our Constitution, the other is something a judge thought should be in the Constitution and at some point will be overturned.
(At which time the issue returns to the States where some will continue to allow abortions and others will ban them)
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...but 40,000 traffic DEATHS (not incidents) doesn’t make a headline anywhere.
How many law abiding citizens fired their weapons at the range last year without incident?
Perspective.
More people die each year from slips, trips, and falls than by guns.
“Take out the urban zones and deliberately self-inflicted, and the gun numbers drop to nearly not noticeable.”
Much of Michigan, area wise, is about as safe to live in as most Western European countries even though the state is gun friendly and guns are common place.
Nothing like accepting stats from a Soros/Bloomberg front organization. The criteria used to define a “gun incident” must be real interesting. We have to ask what other human activities resulting in accidents or injuries are being tracked by these so called independent groups. Very little is posted about their funding, but they are spawned from the Sunlight Foundation. Look it up.
About a hundred and fifty thousand people are killed or injured by their clothing each year in the United States
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