On 4/19/2013 5:16 AM, Doug Miller wrote:
-MIKE- wrote in :

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I can also point out that there are a thousand times more deaths by
automobile, but no one is banning them. There are hundreds of times more
deaths from baseball bats and hammers, but no one is trying to ban them.

This is untrue.

There are very nearly as many deaths due to firearms in the U.S. as due to automobiles
(roughly 31000 vs 34000, respectively, in 2011).

Over 60% of the firearm deaths are suicides, about 2% are accidents, around 25-30% are
murders, and roughly 5% each non-murder homicide (e.g. self-defense) and "undetermined
intent".

There are more privately owned firearms in the USA than there are
registered vehicles, but fewer firearm deaths than vehicular deaths. It
is impossible to say how much ammunition is sold to those private
firearm owners, but it is "many" billions of rounds a year. The actual
risk of harm from firearm use by law-abiding citizens is miniscule. Most
gun-control proposals target those law-abiding citizens, not the
criminal use of firearms.