US: Gun deaths are expected to exceed car deaths in 2015 (for those under 25)

[Triana]

For the better part of a century, the machine most likely to kill an American has been the automobile.

Car crashes killed 33,561 people in 2012, the most recent year for which data is available, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Firearms killed 32,251 people in the United States in 2011, the most recent year for which the Centers for Disease Control has data.

But this year gun deaths are expected to surpass car deaths. That's according to a Center for American Progress report, which cites CDC data that shows guns will kill more Americans under 25 than cars in 2015. Already more than a quarter of the teenagers—15 years old and up—who die of injuries in the United States are killed in gun-related incidents, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Young People Have an Increased Risk of Gun Violence

THE REST:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/americas-top-killing-machine/384440/

[demmiblue]

1. What a sad statement about our society. n/t

[malaise]

2. Expect another mass shooting any day now

We're approaching college and university examinations.

[hack89]

3. An incredible indictment on mental health care in America

suicide is a public health issue that needs to be addressed.

[aikoaiko]

4. Gun related deaths are holding steady while car related deaths are decreasing.

Sadly, the majority are suicides.

[Demeter]

5. And yet, Elon Musk insists we need self-driving cars

Maybe he ought to invent solar-powered, self-shooting guns, instead.

[ncjustice80]

6. Or we could just, y know, ban guns like Australia, Japan, and Britain.

[hack89]

11. Once the 2A is repealed you should have no problems doing exactly that

of course you would also have to also go to each state that has constitutional protections on the right to keep and bear arms and change those constitutions as well but no one said it would be easy.

[Skittles]

7. thanks a lot you paranoid gun humping assholes

YOU WON

[Doctor_J]

8. What about the swimming pool deaths?

For some reason those get brought up every time there is a mass shooting

[Skittles]

9. it is the logic of stupid, paranoid people

[hack89]

12. No - it comes up when we discuss acceptable versus unacceptable causes of deaths

for some, the cause of death is more important than actual numbers. Your reference to mass shootings is a good example of that.

[Cha]

10. Geeze.. how sad. Both of them.