Hillary Clinton loves to use her 90 a day number as the number of people killed by guns in the United States. Sounds like a great political number to bash the NRA with. But is it truthful?
From the CDC 2013 data, the number of Americans killed by guns in assaults- 11,208 which corresponds to just less then 31 a day.
To get the number to her 90 we have to add suicides- 21,175 and the number of accidental deaths- 505. This being said how many accident car deaths do we have or accidental drownings- Ans over 35,000 car deaths and we have 3,000 drownings. We even have 30,000 people killed in accidental falls. As for non firearm suicides we have just over 19,000.
The point, back in the 80s the gun control movement decided to add every gun death they could find to their statistic. Many of their advocates never understood this and believe that they are stating the number of gun homicides. I had a director at Boeing who asked me why I supported gun ownership when it took over 50,000 lives a year. He had taken the 32,000 number (the combined murder, suicide and accident) and then re-added the suicide and accident. And the virtual number keeps growing.
In closing I want to link to my page on Australian numbers. Gun-controlists want to brag that they reduced gun related suicides in Australia and Canada. They reduced the number done by gun, but at the cost of ignoring that non-firearm suicides either increased in proportion, or even increased overall. I don't think Hillary wants to just re-list the deaths under a different column and then hide it behind a curtain, which is what the gun control movement has done for more then two decades.
Of course the Progressives can only talk of gun related suicides for a limited period of time now. Which progressive states like California passing laws allowing the right to commit suicide, how can they then make an issue of the means used.
From the CDC 2013 data, the number of Americans killed by guns in assaults- 11,208 which corresponds to just less then 31 a day.
To get the number to her 90 we have to add suicides- 21,175 and the number of accidental deaths- 505. This being said how many accident car deaths do we have or accidental drownings- Ans over 35,000 car deaths and we have 3,000 drownings. We even have 30,000 people killed in accidental falls. As for non firearm suicides we have just over 19,000.
The point, back in the 80s the gun control movement decided to add every gun death they could find to their statistic. Many of their advocates never understood this and believe that they are stating the number of gun homicides. I had a director at Boeing who asked me why I supported gun ownership when it took over 50,000 lives a year. He had taken the 32,000 number (the combined murder, suicide and accident) and then re-added the suicide and accident. And the virtual number keeps growing.
In closing I want to link to my page on Australian numbers. Gun-controlists want to brag that they reduced gun related suicides in Australia and Canada. They reduced the number done by gun, but at the cost of ignoring that non-firearm suicides either increased in proportion, or even increased overall. I don't think Hillary wants to just re-list the deaths under a different column and then hide it behind a curtain, which is what the gun control movement has done for more then two decades.
Of course the Progressives can only talk of gun related suicides for a limited period of time now. Which progressive states like California passing laws allowing the right to commit suicide, how can they then make an issue of the means used.
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