On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 21:16:14 -0500, technomaNge wrote:

On 09/14/2013 08:32 PM, Doug Miller wrote:
John B. wrote in news:8oa339ps4tntimq4geqaljdj9kmbt0g2mn@
4ax.com:

The U.S. kills some 37,000 people annually in auto accidents and
injures an additional 2.35 million. Versus a miserable 11,000 gun
deaths.

This is not true.

There are approximately 10,000 to 11,000 gun *murders* in the U.S. annually.

And more than half again as many suicides.

The total number of gun deaths in the U.S. is very close to the total number of automobile
deaths. Not quite, but very close -- within less than ten percent.


Got a cite? I wanna see this for myself.

Here's 2010 data from the National Vital Statistics Reports:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr61/nvsr61_04.pdf

[page 18 as Acrobat counts pages]

"2010, motor-vehicle traffic-related injuries resulted in 33,687
deaths"

"In 2010, 31,672 persons died from firearm injuries in the United
States"

--
Ed Huntress



technomaNge