pyotr filipivich wrote in
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technomaNge on Sat, 14 Sep 2013 21:16:14 -0500 typed in
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On 09/14/2013 08:32 PM, Doug Miller wrote:
John B. wrote in
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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.

If the number of gun deaths is near the number of automobile
deaths, it probably has more to do with safer cars, fewer injury
accidents, and better trauma care saving the lives of those who would
have died of their injuries a few years ago.

Better trauma care is also turning a lot of would-be homicides with a firearm into aggravated
assaults instead.

The main reason the number of gun deaths is so close to the number of automobile deaths
is the very large number of firearm suicides. The claim that there are only 11,000 gun
*deaths* in the US annually is simply false. That's the number of gun *murders*. The total
number of deaths from firearms is about three times that high.