Friday Facts

Dawn · September 6, 2019, 1:00pm

By nearly a factor of four, more people in America die from the flu and pneumonia than by homicide (all homicides, including non-gun homicides).
From the Washington Examiner

What else is more deadly than firearms? (Share your statistics!)

MikeBKY · September 6, 2019, 1:11pm

Auto accidents, medical malpractice, poisoning, kids on bicycles …

JamesR · September 6, 2019, 1:13pm

Gravity…11.2 falls, vs. 4.5 homicides via firearms per CDC…(per 100,000)

David38 · September 6, 2019, 3:50pm

According to the FBI, fists, feet, and other weapons of opportunity.

45IPAC · September 6, 2019, 5:45pm

FBI statistics show the baseball bat as the number one, non-firearm weapon I believe.

45IPAC · September 6, 2019, 5:46pm

Medical malpractice. John’s Hopkins University says 250,xxx annual deaths from malpractice.

CHRIS4 · September 7, 2019, 12:00am

Poisoning is mentioned first post but I’d like to be more specific than just general ‘poisons.’

FOOD poisoning.

Zee · September 7, 2019, 2:21am

linking to @Reloader54 ’ s excellent post here:

Resistance to Violent Crime: What Does the Research Show?

But what about other deaths each year?

40,000+ die from a drug overdose – THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR THAT!

36,000 people die per year from the flu, far exceeding the criminal gun deaths.

34,000 people die per year in traffic fatalities (exceeding gun deaths even if you include suicide).

Now it gets good:

200,000+ people die each year (and growing) from preventable medical errors. You are safer walking in the worst areas of Chicago than you are when you are in a hospital!

710,000 people die per year from heart disease. It’s time to stop the double cheeseburgers! So, what is the point? If the liberal loons and the anti-gun movement focused their attention on heart disease, even a 10% decrease in cardiac deaths would save twice the number of lives annually of all gun-related deaths (including suicide, law enforcement, etc.).

A 10% reduction in medical errors would be 66% of the total number of gun deaths or 4 times the number of criminal homicides ……………. Simple, easily preventable 10% reduction! So, you have to ask yourself, in the grand scheme of things, why the focus on guns?

CHRIS4 · September 7, 2019, 2:58am

Self?:
be’cause when you told your parents that you wanted that Roy Rogers bb gun, everybody told Them that You’d shoot your eye out… Now’days everybody thinks they are your parents.