2013 Tennessee "gun deaths" > "traffic deaths"

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All those poor guns. Maybe self-driving cars will be the death of traffic.
http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/20 ... /25410387/
Just days before the National Rifle Association's Annual Meetings and Exhibits in Nashville, a D.C.-based nonprofit that advocates for gun control released an analysis Tuesday that said the state's gun deaths surpassed motor vehicle deaths in 2013.

The Violence Policy Center said Tennessee shares this distinction with 16 other states, along with the District of Columbia.

The analysis is attributed to 2013 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. The center said 2013 is "the most recent year for which comprehensive state-level data is available."
On I40 in TN there are signs listing the number of traffic fatalities so far this year.
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Re: 2013 Tennessee "gun deaths" > "traffic deaths"

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Not here. We have around 50 to 60 homicides and around 200-240 vehicle deaths and 12,000 vehicle injuries.

Of course if everyone who drove everyday, shot a gun everyday, the numbers for gun deaths might be higher. :D

Based on 2013 statistics,

During 2013:
One crash occurred every 17 minutes.
Forty-four persons were injured each day.
One person was killed every 42 hours.

I may consider staying home from rush hour tomorrow. We suck at driving I guess.

http://www.transportation.nebraska.gov/ ... ts2013.pdf
Brian

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If you count suicides, there are around 200 a year and 52% of those are with firearms. So that put gun deaths close to traffic deaths I suppose. Posioning and suffocation are 44% of the ~200. So even excluding guns, the results are more people kill themselves than other people in my state.

But the goal isn't to refine but to equate apples, oranges, and pears. Fruit is fruit, right?

A traffic death is a traffic death. Whether it was a guy falling asleep after a long shift and rolling his car, or a drunk running a stop sign and killing 4 people in the other car.

A gun death is a gun death. Whether it's a suicide, 4 year old "playing", or a mass murder spree.

That's why the law treats them all the same.
Brian

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The article implies gun deaths are on the rise. I think it's more a matter of auto deaths are on the decline due to safer cars. You stand a better chance of surviving a collision than you did in a car built in the 50s



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JColville wrote:The article implies gun deaths are on the rise. I think it's more a matter of auto deaths are on the decline due to safer cars. You stand a better chance of surviving a collision than you did in a car built in the 50s



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Plus VPC has a documented history of both lying their asses off and admitting that deception is fine if it advances their policy goals.
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