Leading Causes of Unintentional Injury Deaths

[LastDemInIdaho]

Leading Causes of Unintentional Injury Deaths United States, 2001

Motor Vehicle 42,900
Poisoning 14,500
Falls 14,200
Suffocation by Inhalation or Ingestion 4,200
Fires, Flames and Smoke 3,900

http://www.nsc.org/library/rept2000.htm

Look Ma...no guns involved.

[MrBenchley]

1. Good thing you left out intentional killing

otherwise people might actually think we have a problem in the US with morons shooting and killing people....instead of a totally phony analogy, which is what we have now.

[Spentastic]

2. So?

Percentage of gun related deaths involving guns.

100%

Anyone else want to join in the "post your own meaningless statistics" fun?

[iverglas]

3. here we bloody go again

I am in contact with several hundred if not thousand cars every time I go grocery shopping -- both while driving on the roadway and while walking in parking lots and on sidewalks. Hell, cars come within a few feet of me every time I stand on the sidewalk in front of my house. Each one of them a potential cause of my death. Not to mention my own car, of course; some days, I spend several hours in close contact with that potentially lethal object.

I am in potential danger of dying in a house fire every time I butt a cigarette or turn on my stove, or sleep through a thunderstorm.

I am in danger of falling every time I stand up, seems to me. At the *least*, every time I walk up or down my home or office stairs or the front porch steps ... . Hell, I fell off my sister's driveway in June and broke my foot, just like I fell off a sidewalk at the shopping plaza 10 years earlier and broke the same bone in the same foot; could just as easily have smashed my head on that damned curb and died a statistic, both times.

And I could have drowned every time I got into that cute little pool in my back yard this summer.

Quite amazing that I'm still alive, isn't it? Constant contact with all these dangerous things just waiting to kill me as they have so many others, and yet here I am.

I am in contact with firearms whenever I come within spitting distance of a cop, and no other time ever unless someone brings a firearm into my vicinity without my knowledge, which would be as close to never as you can get without being never.

Isn't it just completely astounding that more people die as a result of contact with motor vehicles than die as a result of contact with firearms?

I wonder how many people die the first time they get in a car, or the first time they walk down a flight of stairs, or the first time they light a cigarette? Or the tenth, or hundredth, or hundred thousandth?

I wonder how many kids die the first time they play with a firearm?

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