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Anti gunners started the idea that they could use car deaths to show how dangerous guns are.....stating that gun deaths were going to surpass car deaths in 2015.....and...they were wrong....
Motor Vehicle v. Firearm Deaths in 2015: So much for left wing predictions - Crime Prevention Research Center
Remember when The Economist magazine had the headline in January 2015: “A gun is now more likely to kill you than a car is.” News organization after news made a claim similar to The Atlantic in early 2015: “Gun deaths are poised to surpass automobile deaths in the United States this year.”
The claim that total automobile deaths have fallen relative to firearm deaths can be seen in this figure, though it is also clear that the drop occurred during the recession of 2008 and 2009 (part of that drop is due in part to some reduction in driving). Gun control advocates include firearm homicides and not firearm murders in their numbers, which don’t really make a lot of sense to us because homicides include justifiable homicides (self defense by police or civilians). So these first two graphs show the numbers with homicides and then with murders. With murders, the difference between motor vehicle and firearm deaths equals almost 5,900.
Actual numbers from the CDC WISQARS data site.....2015...
Car accident deaths 2015.... 36,161
Accidental gun death.... 489
That is if you compare apples to apples...but the anti gunner don't do that...they throw in every gun death vs accidental car deaths......
gun accident deaths... 489
Gun murder (cdc) ... 12,979 FBI ( 9,616)
Gun suicide.... 22,018
Total.....if you cheat and combine murder and self harm to the gun total.... 35,486
So in reality.....
Accidental car deaths 2015.... 36,161
Accidental gun deaths 2015.... 489
Motor Vehicle v. Firearm Deaths in 2015: So much for left wing predictions - Crime Prevention Research Center
Remember when The Economist magazine had the headline in January 2015: “A gun is now more likely to kill you than a car is.” News organization after news made a claim similar to The Atlantic in early 2015: “Gun deaths are poised to surpass automobile deaths in the United States this year.”
The claim that total automobile deaths have fallen relative to firearm deaths can be seen in this figure, though it is also clear that the drop occurred during the recession of 2008 and 2009 (part of that drop is due in part to some reduction in driving). Gun control advocates include firearm homicides and not firearm murders in their numbers, which don’t really make a lot of sense to us because homicides include justifiable homicides (self defense by police or civilians). So these first two graphs show the numbers with homicides and then with murders. With murders, the difference between motor vehicle and firearm deaths equals almost 5,900.
Actual numbers from the CDC WISQARS data site.....2015...
Car accident deaths 2015.... 36,161
Accidental gun death.... 489
That is if you compare apples to apples...but the anti gunner don't do that...they throw in every gun death vs accidental car deaths......
gun accident deaths... 489
Gun murder (cdc) ... 12,979 FBI ( 9,616)
Gun suicide.... 22,018
Total.....if you cheat and combine murder and self harm to the gun total.... 35,486
So in reality.....
Accidental car deaths 2015.... 36,161
Accidental gun deaths 2015.... 489
