On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 6:07:53 PM UTC-4, JustWaitAFrekinMinute! wrote:
On 2/19/2013 2:00 PM, Meyer wrote:

On 2/19/2013 11:49 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:

On 2/19/13 11:33 AM, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote:

On 2/19/2013 11:06 AM, iBoaterer wrote:

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says...



On 2/19/2013 9:56 AM, Meyer wrote:

On 2/19/2013 9:55 AM, Salmonbait wrote:

On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:48:20 -0500, "Eisboch"

wrote:







"F.O.A.D." wrote in message

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On 2/19/13 9:00 AM, Eisboch wrote:

For kicks I looked up the leading causes of death in the USA.

Data

is

the final numbers from 2010 as published by the Center for Disease

Control.

Surprisingly, firearms related deaths didn't make the top ten and

firearms related homicides weren't even close to the top ten.

It's

interesting that deaths caused by traffic accidents numbered

about 3

times those of homicides involving firearms, but all the focus

is on

more gun control laws.



Personal note: This is not a excuse of deaths caused by firearms,

but

rather an attempt to put it all in perspective.



Heart disease: 597,689

Cancer: 574,743

Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 138,080

Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 129,476

Accidents (unintentional injuries): 120,859

Alzheimer's disease: 83,494

Diabetes: 69,071

Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 50,476

Influenza and Pneumonia: 50,097

Intentional self-harm (suicide): 38,364

Traffic accidents: 33,808

Firearms: 30,470 (19,392 suicides, 11,078 homicides)





There are solid statistically based predictions that state that

firearms

deaths will exceed traffic accident deaths in a couple of years.



Oh, you forgot to list the number of Americans who die of old

age.



On a more serious note, I only took one college-level statistics

course

and have forgotten most of what I ever learned about that sort of

math,

so I asked a family member who has taken four graduate-level stats

courses about these sorts of comparisons (gun deaths vs. car deaths

vs.

cancer deaths, et cetera) and got a chuckle in response. "Such

comparisions are based on silliness and are statistically absurd.

Yes,

more people die of cancer than of gunshot wounds but...so what?"



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The number that surprised me was deaths by homicide involving

firearms. I read the same thing you did regarding firearm deaths

exceeding traffic deaths by 2015 however that includes suicides.

Unfortunately, although a gun is the method of choice for most

suicides, further gun restrictions won't eliminate them. As

stated

in my post, the data is presented simply to put things in

perspective. 11,078 firearms related homicides is too many of

course

but it's a reflection of violence in our society ... which also

cannot

be totally eliminated. There are bad people in the world. But

the

number is not the huge number that some of the media and

proponents of

even more gun control measure would like you to believe.



My state has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation.



Funny how it's the bigger nanny states, they really don't want their

citizens to have a "say" in their government... Mass is a perfect

example.



You stupid little fool!!!



You fat old drunk... do you really think I am gonna' read anything you

write?







Yup. Because...you do.



He tripped himself up just as you have done on many occasions.



Nope... I just look at the screen. Usually by the first sentence I see

if it's kevin, don, asshole, the other asshole.. etc.. and I skip to the

next post. I never see the meat as none of them can write a decent post...


I do admit it is extremely hard to "write a decent post" about you, your Peter Pan lifestyle or your criminally insane rants.
So...who's fault is that?