The rich beyotch blows smoke

[Skul]

I thought this interesting only because it fits the DUmps narrative.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024545749

Sat Feb 22, 2014, 10:27 AM
Star Member kpete (41,980 posts)

WOW: Guns to surpass car accidents as leading cause of deaths among young people
  That's children, right? 
Guns kill a lot of young people in the United States. Not just in school shootings or horrific “accidents” between toddlers that tend to garner the most media attention, but in every day shootings in communities around the country that result in the deaths of thousands of children and teenagers.

In 2010, 6,201 young people between the ages of 15 and 24 died by gunfire. Guns were a close second to the leading cause of death among this age group, car accidents, which took the lives of 7,024 young people that year. But, while car accident deaths among young people have been steadily declining over the past decade, gun deaths have remained relatively unchanged. And, as described in a new Center for American Progress report released Friday, if current trends continue, gun deaths will surpass car accident deaths among young people sometime in 2015: 

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/02/22/3320751/gun-deaths-surpass-car-accidents-leading-cause-young-people/ <---reliable source ?

Hardly children. However, that doesn't fit the narrative.

Response to kpete (Original post)
Sat Feb 22, 2014, 10:53 AM

Star Member Lizzie Poppet (3,691 posts)

1. Both are dropping, but vehicle deaths are dropping much faster.

The alarming thing to me is that the drop in firearms-related deaths has begun to level out. We've been making real progress in violent crime rates in general, and any indicator that this trend won't continue is disturbing.

Of course, if the stats among youths mirror those of the general population, about 2/3s of those gun deaths will be suicides. That matters because the steps that might be taken would be different (for the most part) to those taken to address homicide.

No, you stupid scrunt, they're from wannabe gangbangers. Chicago, anyone? Detroit?

Response to Lizzie Poppet (Reply #1)
Sat Feb 22, 2014, 09:36 PM

Star Member awoke_in_2003 (22,185 posts)

89. Cars can be made safer...

not so much with guns. Wrong. It's not the firearm, it's the user.

Blazing campfire going on. Lots of slap-fests.

[HawkHogan]

I wager most of those deaths are gang-related.  Liberals bore me. 

[ChuckJ]

Sat Feb 22, 2014, 10:27 AM
Star Member kpete (41,980 posts)

WOW: Guns to surpass car accidents as leading cause of deaths among young people
 
Guns kill a lot of young people in the United States. Not just in school shootings or horrific “accidents” between toddlers that tend to garner the most media attention, but in every day shootings in communities around the country that result in the deaths of thousands of children and teenagers.

In 2010, 6,201 young people between the ages of 15 and 24 died by gunfire. Guns were a close second to the leading cause of death among this age group, car accidents, which took the lives of 7,024 young people that year. But, while car accident deaths among young people have been steadily declining over the past decade, gun deaths have remained relatively unchanged. And, as described in a new Center for American Progress report released Friday, if current trends continue, gun deaths will surpass car accident deaths among young people sometime in 2015:  

Abortion kills a lot of young people in the United States. In 2010, 765,651 innocents died by abortion.

Looks like thugs still have a way to go to top the baby killers.

[Splashdown]

Of COURSE vehicle deaths are dropping. Nobody can afford gas to drive.

[Tucker]

I wager most of those deaths are gang-related.  Liberals bore me. 

Eliminate suicides, justifiable homicide and gangbangers killing each other, actual murders with all firearms are less than 2K per year.