New study: In 14 States, gun deaths exceeded motor vehicle deaths.

[Fred Sanders]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/15/1314190/-New-study-In-14-states-gun-deaths-exceeded-motor-vehicle-deaths

No wonder the NRA and the Republicans struggle to defund any legislation for any kind of study involving their favorite instrument of human death.

Truth is a killer.

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"Gun fetishists like to argue that cars kill more people than do guns, and therefore there should be calls to ban cars, just as there are calls to ban guns. It's a patently stupid argument given that so many more people use cars than guns, and even more stupid given that cars are heavily regulated, and that those who drive them even have to be licensed. But in over a quarter of the states, even the most basic point of this patently stupid argument is itself not true:
Oregon was one of 14 states where gun deaths outpaced motor vehicle deaths in 2011, according to a study by the Violence Policy Center.
Data was compiled from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.

The data are the most recent available, and this marks the third year the Violence Policy Center has released such a comparison.
The 13 other states where gun deaths exceeded motor vehicle deaths in 2011 were: Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and Washington state, as well as the District of Columbia."

[mwrguy]

1. Another NRA talking point debunked

In your face, toters.