In the lasted CDC report which is for 2011 2,615.458 people died in the United States; of those all but 190,038 were for medical reasons. Of the 190,038 86,415 were from non vehicle accidents, 39,518 were from suicide, 38,023 were from transportation (mostly cars), 11,068 were from homicides (guns), 5,170 were homicides by other means, leaving 7,854 from various other reasons. Of the other category only 492 deaths were for legal reasons means by the police. Of that amount 133 were black and 337 were white, 22 were other.
Of non medical deaths 20.8% were suicide 18.6% from Motor vehicle 5.8% were homicides so we can see that guns are not a major factor and even if there were no guns the number of deaths would not change much and in fact could go up since criminals would now that there were no armed citizens and they would still have guns!
Ah, yes, a conversation sparked by Vivek Murthy being confirmed. Now, suddenly, gun violence is a health care issue instead of a crime issue or a people issue. Because everyone knows guns make people do bad things. If there were no guns, there would suddenly be no crime or unnatural causes of death. Utopia, I tell you! And, of course, there haven’t been any studies about gun violence. They don’t count if they don’t support the “progressive” extremist point of view. There have been lots of studies, they can be found via a Google search if they haven’t been talked about here.
One big reason for the absence of such data is that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been operating for more than a decade under a virtual ban against doing the work. In the 1990s, the NRA persuaded Congress to pass legislation forbidding the CDC from…
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