Thedub88
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The thread about homicide dropping of the list of the most leading cause of death, got me thinking of the leading cause of homicide. A google search only talked about homicide not on the death list. Anyone have any info?
For the first time in almost half a century, homicide has fallen off the list of the nation's top 15 causes of death, bumped by a lung illness that often develops in elderly people who have choked on their food.
In the table mentioned in the blurb above, 613 people were listed as dying from accidents involving firearms. Here's the info about firearm-related deaths.Firearm—In 2007, 31,224 persons died from firearm injuries in the United States (Tables 18–20), accounting for 17.1 percent of all injury deaths that year.
Firearm suicide at 55.6 percent and homicide at 40.5 percent were the two major component causes of all firearm injury deaths in 2007.
In 2007, the age-adjusted death rate for firearm suicide and homicide was unchanged statistically from 2006.
The age-adjusted rate for all firearm injuries was the same in 2007 as in 2006—10.2 deaths per 100,000 U.S. standard population (Tables 18–20). In 2007, males had a firearm-related, age-adjusted death rate that was 6.7 times that for females.
By comparison with the rate for the white population, the rate for the black population was 2.2 times higher; AIAN, 18.0 percent lower; and API, 67.4 percent lower (Table 19). The non-Hispanic white population’s rate was 1.2 times that for the Hispanic population, and the rate for the non-Hispanic black population was 2.7 times that for the Hispanic population (Table 20).
There has been a movement among some doctors, especially pediatricians, to ask if patients keep guns in their homes. The implication is that guns are a health issue, and ought to be regulated as such. As scoundrels often do, this subset of doctors drags out the "save the children" canard to lend legitimacy to their purely political cause.
In the February issue of Guns & Ammo, page 12, the rate of accidental death by gun is compared to the rate for medical errors, and here are the numbers (per year):
Doctors in the U.S.: 700,000
Accidental deaths caused by doctors: 120,000
Gun owners in the U.S.: 80,000,000
Accidental deaths caused by guns: 1500
Accidental deaths per doctor: 0.171
Accidental deaths per gun owner: 0.000188
You are over 900 times more likely to die accidentally from a medical error than than you are by a gun.
Source: U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services
You are over 900 times more likely to die accidentally from a medical error than than you are by a gun.
You are over 900 times more likely to die accidentally from a medical error than than you are by a gun.
Now lets have a nation where guns have been banned. No guns. Virtually none for civilians, none for off-duty police, etc.
This is easily possible, and would be the case after a few years, for example, if there were a serious complete ban with strict enforcement and consequences.
Delete the 2nd Amendment. [Remember: we came within ONE vote of exactly this in Heller. Don't think it cannot happen.]
Outlaw private posession of all firearms & ammunition by anyone, no exceptions.
Severe fine 1st offence, felony 2nd offence for posession of guns or ammo.