>>>OOOOk - here ya go. Do this math:
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>>>Typically, there are approximately 30,000 US deaths due to firearms in the US each year.
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>>>In 2007 according to the Centers for Disease Control Faststats and the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control WIQARS Leading Causes of Nonfatal Injury Reports:
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>>>48,676 people were intentionally shot who survived. (NCIPC)
>>>18,610 people were unintentionally shot who survived. (NCIPC)
>>>17,352 suicides (intentionally shot themselves who died) (CDC)
>>>12,632 criminal firearm deaths (killed in a crime by guns) (CDC)
>>>This does not include deaths of people intentionally or unintentionally shot for legal reasons (Like the police shooting a suspect).
>>>The above total is 97270 people shot in the US in 2007. About a third (29984) died, and it is likely that the total number of Americans shot is at least 100,000 given that all types of gunshot injuries/deaths are not included.
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>>>In the US, every day during 2007, about 266 Americans were shot. Every day, a third of them (82 daily) died.
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>>And yet, according to the same source, in 2011, the #1 causes of non-fatal injury, for all ages, in the United States, by far, was Assault (1,421,464).
>>Firearm/gunshot 55,544 was at number 8. And, what do you know, it was the same in 2007.
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>>For fatal injury, it was ranked 5th - behind traffic accidents, accidental poisoning, accidental falls and suicide by firearm.
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>>Numbers, like scripture, need to be placed in full context or they're meaningless.
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>Since I'm talking about gun deaths ..what does traffic accidents, poisoning and accidental falls have to do with that?
>How about there were 10 guns deaths today in xyzCity. By comparison, there were 12 people in xyzCity that stubbed their toe today. Good gwaaad.
How about there were 10 gun deaths today in xyzCity - there were also 48 automobile deaths in xyzCity, along with 12 stabbing and 3 beating deaths. My point is that guns aren't the only thing people are killing people with out there.