1. Nevada -- Gun-related death rate: 15.36 per 100,000; Motor-vehicle death rate: 9.65 per 100,000.Remarkable--especially when you consider more than 90% of all US houselds own autos, while fewer than a third of households own guns.
2. Alaska -- Gun death rate: 14.89; Motor-vehicle death rate: 12.03.
3. Arizona -- Gun death rate: 12.98; Motor-vehicle death rate: 12.27.
4. Colorado -- Gun death rate: 11.60; Motor-vehicle death rate: 11.24.
5. Indiana -- Gun death rate: 11.44; Motor-vehicle death rate: 11.13.
6. Michigan -- Gun death rate: 10.98; Motor-vehicle death rate: 9.80.
7. Oregon -- Gun death rate: 10.90; Motor-vehicle death rate: 10.30.
8. Virginia -- Gun death rate: 10.61; Motor-vehicle death rate: 10.49.
9. Washington state -- Gun death rate: 9.35; Motor-vehicle death rate: 8.70.
10. Utah -- Gun death rate: 9.34; Motor-vehicle death rate: 9.19.
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Guns Kill More Than Cars in 10 States
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What is the "gun death" rate after you remove suicides and murders where the murder was a criminal killing another criminal during a crime?
ReplyDeleteCap'n: What's the death rate if you remove people with IQs under 50? Or if we remove fat white men with ED?
ReplyDeleteThe facts are what they are. You have to also consider that almost all auto fatalities are accidents while the large majority of gun deaths are deliberate.