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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social
@davidbaron
16 Dec 2012
There are roughly the same number of gun deaths and motor vehicle deaths in the US:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_vi…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o…
Dec 16, 2012 · 7:10 PM UTC
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social
@davidbaron
16 Dec 2012
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@asadotzler
Suicide number is also very similar; 51% of US suicides are by firearm; 56% of US firearm deaths are suicides. (same source)
David Humphrey
@humphd
16 Dec 2012
Replying to
@davidbaron
@davidbaron
Interesting. I was looking at similar stats for Canada, see
tc.gc.ca/eng/roadsafety/tp-t…
,
justice.gc.ca/eng/pi/rs/rep-…
,
rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cfp-pcaf/res-…