Posted: 1/18/2013 11:31:54 AM EDT
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Sources for these preceding items were just grabbed from google/ wiki stuff Census population 308,748,481 Guns in America (conservative estimate) 260,000,000 Households with guns (conservative estimate) 47% Deaths in America Annually 2,500,000 "Natural" Deaths in America Annually 1,650,000 "Un-Natural" Deaths in America Annually 825,000 Deaths every year by medical errors in the US 195,000 Automobile Fatalities in America (2011) 32,367 Source for stuff below is: FBI 2011 Stats http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/table-20 Total Murders in America (2011) 12,626 Total firearms murders 8,552 Handguns 6,193 Rifles (All Types) 323>10% of this is semi-auto rifles Shotguns 356 Firearms (type unknown) 1,680 Total non-firearms 4,074 Knives or cutting instruments 1,689 Other weapons 1,657 Hands, fists, feet, etc. 728 Percent of 2011 murder by any rifle 2.56% Percent of 2011 murder by semi-auto rifle 0.26% You are two times more likely to be murdered by somebodys bare hands than by any sort of rifle. You are one hundred times more likely to die in a car accident than by any sort of rifle. ...Yet they want to ban semi-auto "assault" rifles Tens of millions of legally owned semi-auto rifles will be banned because of +/- 30 deaths per year. 
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Got in to it with a coworker who thought it was crazy that law abiding citizens could CCW. Worried that minor fender benders causes shootings, blablabla.
So, we ran the numbers from the internet using anti-gun website-here you go: Per: VPC there were 499 people killed by CCW holders from May 07-Nov 12. That is 67 months or 5.58 years, at 499 people averages to 89.4 people a year. Let’s round up to a whole person. CCW holders kill on average 90 people a year. There are 311,000,000 in the US. In 2007, there were 300,000,000 so we’ll average down to 300,000,000 for the entire time. At 90 people a year with 300,000,000 in the US, the odds of dying by a law abiding, legal, CCW holder due to getting in a confrontation over a fender bender is: 0.000003 or 0.0003%/year. We then hit up google and asked what are your odds of dying… http://www.purewatergazette.net/oddsofdying.htm That's my math for the day.... |
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What year was this for? LOL at car deaths is almost equal to the number of murders total. Automobile Fatalities in America 201,132,367
Total Murders in America 201,112,626 
Total firearms murders 8,552 EDIT Source? Year (2011) 12,626 freaking tab formatting didnt copy over! |
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Year (2011) 12,626 freaking tab formatting didnt copy over! OK that makes more sense. Census.gov? I found a scary table of the top causes of death for my age group. 15 TO 24 YEARS
All causes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,982 79 .9 Accidents (unintentional injuries) . . . . . . . 15,897 37.4 Assault (homicide) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,551 13.1 Intentional self-harm (suicide) . . . . . . . . . 4,140 9.7 |
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Got in to it with a coworker who thought it was crazy that law abiding citizens could CCW. Worried that minor fender benders causes shootings, blablabla. So, we ran the numbers from the internet using anti-gun website-here you go: Per: VPC there were 499 people killed by CCW holders from May 07-Nov 12. That is 67 months or 5.58 years, at 499 people averages to 89.4 people a year. Let’s round up to a whole person. CCW holders kill on average 90 people a year. There are 311,000,000 in the US. In 2007, there were 300,000,000 so we’ll average down to 300,000,000 for the entire time. At 90 people a year with 300,000,000 in the US, the odds of dying by a law abiding, legal, CCW holder due to getting in a confrontation over a fender bender is: 0.000003 or 0.0003%/year. We then hit up google and asked what are your odds of dying… http://www.purewatergazette.net/oddsofdying.htm That's my math for the day.... I'd bet of those 90/yr, 90-95% are ruled jusifiable. |
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Census population 308,748,481
Guns in America (conservative estimate) 260,000,000 Households with guns (conservative estimate) 47% CDC Preliminary Data for 2011
Deaths in America Annually 2,513,171 (Page 3)(page 20) "Natural" Deaths in America Annually 1,650,000 "Un-Natural" Deaths in America Annually 825,000 Deaths every year by medical errors in the US 195,000 (Not able to find) Automobile Fatalities in America (2011) 34,677 (page 18) according to FBI Expanded Homicide Data Table 8
Total Murders in America (2011) 12,664 Total firearms murders 8,583 Handguns 6,220 Rifles (All Types) 323 Shotguns 356 Other guns 97 Firearms (type unknown) 1,587 Total non-firearms 4,081 Knives or cutting instruments 1,694 Other weapons 1,659 Hands, fists, feet, etc. 728 Percent of 2011 murder by any rifle 2.56% Percent of 2011 murder by semi-auto rifle 0.26% You are two times more likely to be murdered by somebodys bare hands than by any sort of rifle. You are one hundred times more likely to die in a car accident than by any sort of rifle. ...Yet they want to ban semi-auto "assault" rifles Tens of millions of legally owned semi-auto rifles will be banned because of +/- 30 deaths per year. Will continue to edit as I find sources. |
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Got in to it with a coworker who thought it was crazy that law abiding citizens could CCW. Worried that minor fender benders causes shootings, blablabla. So, we ran the numbers from the internet using anti-gun website-here you go: Per: VPC there were 499 people killed by CCW holders from May 07-Nov 12. That is 67 months or 5.58 years, at 499 people averages to 89.4 people a year. Let’s round up to a whole person. CCW holders kill on average 90 people a year. There are 311,000,000 in the US. In 2007, there were 300,000,000 so we’ll average down to 300,000,000 for the entire time. At 90 people a year with 300,000,000 in the US, the odds of dying by a law abiding, legal, CCW holder due to getting in a confrontation over a fender bender is: 0.000003 or 0.0003%/year. We then hit up google and asked what are your odds of dying… http://www.purewatergazette.net/oddsofdying.htm That's my math for the day.... I'd bet of those 90/yr, 90-95% are ruled jusifiable. That'd be a more interesting statistic. |