18 Replies to “Let Me Fix That Headline For You”

  2. Look out Liberal America, all stripes of farmers, villagers, and quite taxpaying suburbanites are starting to run amok!
    Quick take their guns, then go down to the Liberal inner city ghetto’s and score some dope to calm the nerves.

  3. Make no mistake, Obama is obviously to blame for the projected increase after 2011 and the real increase after 2000. But who is to blame for the run up in gun deaths from 1983 to 1993 and similar drop in motor vehicle deaths? Can we blame Obama? I would really love to!

  4. It looks like someone has been Bloomberging the data.
    How many gun related deaths are suicides? Since suicide is a crime it gets lumped in with homicides. Gun related deaths also include the 4-5000 justifiable homicides in self-defense by both civilians and law enforcement. That stat has to be stripped down to criminal homicide only to be meaningful.
    A quick perusal of the FBI Unified Crime Report shows that ‘murder and non-negligent manslaughter’ has decreased from 24,256 in 1993 to 14,827 in 2012. Approx 2/3rds of homicides are committed with firearms so .66 x 14,827 = 9785. So Bloombergs report is inflating the rate of criminal firearms homicides by over 200% – approximately 32,000 vs 10,000.
    The per capita murder/non-negligent manslaughter rate has decreased by 50%; in 1993 it was 9.5 per 100,000 vs 4.7 in 2012.
    Go here
    http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/violent-crime/violent-crime
    and select Table 1 from the column on the right.

  5. I suspect the 2 largest drops in auto death had to do with seatbelt laws and then airbags. Gun deaths going up – I suspect suicides.

  6. Al in Ottawa: Oh yeah, “killed by firearms” includes the suicides. It always does in these bogosities.
    BTW, the number of people dying in car accidents is really coming down — despite more people, more cars.

  7. Interesting how 2011-2014 is all projection. Must be President Obama’s scientists on the job.

  8. Another “fun with numbers” graph, including projections into the future. Give me a cause, a few numbers, and I’ll give you justification for anything you want. Still, I note that the early 90s had a dramatic rise in “gun deaths” and an equally dramatic fall in “traffic fatalities”. What’s up with that?

  10. Oh yeh, I forgot to mention that it’s not JUST the price of gasoline Kate. The big drop in auto deaths started in 2007/2008. What’s up with that??? Could be airbags but also it could be that unemployed people drive less because they have no income. Gee whis, this is hard to figure out.

  12. It would have been handy to see the above graph during the “cellular phones cause auto deaths” post of a few days ago here at SDA.
    Perhaps hunters need to stop posting selfies on Facebook?

  13. Uh, no. Seatbelts and airbags were all in use well before 2008.
    I’m going to suggest it was an unintended consequence of ‘cash for clunkers’ – people got out of 15 year old cars that might not have had airbags, anti-lock brakes, crumple zones, etc., and into new ones that did (and were doubtless in better overall shape – new brake pads, new tires, etc.)

  14. Traffic densities – harder to get killed in a car full of airbags(as opposed to govt full of windbags, right Amb Stevens?)when the actual time in motion is 50% of the trip and the average speed is less than 50kph…

  15. economic down turn? Ppl can’t afford gas or insurance, so they drive less and more carefull because they don’t have insurance. The cash for clunkers may have had some impact, but many who took advantage of that program actually turned in reasonable good cars, which did keep some “better” cars from the lower rungs of society, thusly leaving the poor in less safe cars.

  16. Maybe we should compare like to like?
    Traffic deaths are mostly accidents, not homicide or suicide.
    The US CDC says that in 2010 (latest data available, bureaucratic efficiency strikes again) there were 606 deaths from “Accidental discharge of firearms”.
    So seems to me that should be 606 for guns vs. 30,000 for cars.
    Sorry Bloomy, but you’re just a dirty liar.

  17. The total number is down but certain demographics are committing more murders ( and other types of crimes ) while other demographic commit fewer murders
    Less white people are committing murders while more non-white are committing murders is what no one has the guts to say
    In the USA gun violence happens mostly where there are a lot of blacks and Hispanics , while in Canada gun violence happens mostly where there are many native Indians
    White people do own a lot of firearms but they commit less crimes than other demographics, they use their firearms for hunting mostly.
    Don’t take my word for it, go to this site, the facts ( and the maps ) speak for themselves.
    http://jaymans.wordpress.com/2014/06/11/guns-violence-again/
    Oh and before anyone screams RACIST! the guy who wrote the article and gathered the maps is black ( no he is not me, I am white )

  18. But! But! Texting! It causes so many deaths! Look at the rise as cell phones have saturated the car driving population!!!

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