Experts Predict Firearms Deaths Will Surpass Vehicle Deaths

[Nasty Jack]

Last edited Tue May 19, 2015, 06:10 PM - Edit history (1)

Firearms deaths in Missouri in 2013, the most recent federal data available, surpassed vehicle deaths and significantly, 880 to 781. Unfortunately, this trend is also prevalent in 17 additional states. A Kansas City mom asks, “How did we as a community get to this point and everybody still be OK with it?” This was following the death of her 26-year-old son who was shot and killed in his K.C. apartment. But the scary part is that this is a trend and some experts "predict that for the first time in decades, firearms will kill more people nationwide this year than motor vehicles." Gun deaths are down about 15 percent from their 1990s peak, however there is a slow growth of firearm deaths nationwide over the last decade. Over the years from 1972 to 2013 vehicle deaths dropped to 35,612 from 54,589. This was due to consumer highway campaigns to make the driving experience safer. Sadly, today's gun culture refuses to take a lesson from this success.

Nasty Jack

[Romeo.lima333]

1. hopefully we can take scotus back and get rid of a large part of this problem

[Electric Monk]

2. Posting in ALL CAPS is internet short-hand for shouting, and generally considered quite rude.

Please edit your headline and also refrain from doing so in this group from here on, or you will be blocked.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_caps

With the advent of the Bulletin board system, or BBS, and later the Internet, typing messages in all caps became closely identified with "shouting" or attention-seeking behavior, and is considered very rude. As a result, netiquette generally discourages the use of all caps when posting messages online. While all caps can be used as an alternative to rich-text "bolding" for a single word or phrase, to express emphasis, repeated use of all caps can be considered "shouting" or irritating. Its equivalence to shouting traces back to 1984 and traces back to printed typography usage of all capitals to mean shouting.[6] Such poor netiquette has led to a number of employees being laid off for this particular reason.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. The answer is quite simple -

have more car accidents.

That way the gunnies will have something to cite in their lame arguments.

[samsingh]

5. i wouldn't put it past some gun lunatics to do just that

[Wilms]

4. An article from two years ago disagrees with some of that.

Rate Of U.S. Gun Violence Has Fallen Since 1993, Study Says
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/05/07/181998015/rate-of-u-s-gun-violence-has-fallen-since-1993-study-says

[Nasty Jack]

6. Your comment

If you are referring to the decrease in gun violence in the last decade, your article doesn't seem to specify an increase in that total period just mentions some increased activity in 2010. Did I miss something?

[Wilms]

7. That's what I'm asking.

I went to the CDC site, and it was going to be some work. Two years that I looked at showed different metrics...gun deaths and homicides. Details are probably there, but I'd need to work it.