How many car incidents were there?
According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) website in 2015 (the latest year for which they post the data) there were 37,757 deaths from motor vehicle accidents.
In 2009, the National Safety Council estimated there were 10 million auto accidents in the United States, including those for which no police reports was generated..
In 2015, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reputed that there were 6,296,000 auto accidents that resulted in a police report.
The number of auto accident fatalities increased by 7.7% in 2014, 8% in 2015, and 6.6% in 2016 outpacing the rate of increase in auto accidents that resulted in a police report by about 2% each year.
Independent my ass..
How many of these were law enforcement defending innocent citizens?
How many of these were legally armed citizens defending themselves from deadly assaults?
How many of these were the ferals in the big blue cities killing each other over being “dissed”, turf, or over a pair of sneakers?
American red states and counties do not have a gun problem.
Young democrats have a gun problem and commit the vast amount of gun crimes in our nation and have for the last 20 years according to the FBI on line data banks.
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.