On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 11:10:11 -0700, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

technomaNge on Sat, 14 Sep 2013 21:16:14 -0500 typed in
rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
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.

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.


technomaNge
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pyotr filipivich
"With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone."

I believe it is a factor of the higher efficiency of firearms. There
are apparently some 30,000 auto deaths and some 2.3 million adult
injuries from auto accidents. On the other hand there were about
30,000 (all causes) deaths and 68,265 injuries from firearms.

So one might say that there were some 98,265 deaths and injuries
resulting from firearms and some 2,330,000 deaths and injuries
resulting from automobiles.
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Cheers,

John B.