Firearm Assault Statistics
 

For those who are curious about statistics:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr61/nvsr61_06.pdf

Assault (homicide) by discharge of firearms:

For 2011 11,101 (the total U.S. population for 2011 is 311,591,917) or 0.003562672647891569% of the population.

For 2010 11,078 (the total U.S. population for 2010 is 308,745,538) or 0.000358806804845225% of the population.

To put this into perspective:

Diseases of heart 596,339
Malignant neoplasms 575,313
Chronic lower respiratory diseases 143,382
Cerebrovascular diseases 128,931
Accidents 122,777
Alzheimer's disease 84,691
Diabetes mellitus 73,282
Influenza and pneumonia 53,667
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis 45,731
Intentional self-harm (suicide) 38,285
Septicemia 35,539
Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis 33,539
Essential hypertension and hypertensive renal disease 27,477
Parkinson's disease 23,107
Pneumonitis due to solids and liquids 18,090

Many of the above are affected by the economy, employment, health care, education and being much more health conscious (access to healthier food, exercise, etc.).

So, where do you feel our government should focus?

:cheers:

....sorry can't hear you. Too busy wagging the dog.

Never realized That sounds dirty.

Where is the dying from hunger stat?

Very good statistics, however. To be fair, I think we should categorize these into deaths and age groups. Example: Alsiehmers, Parkensens, etc. many of the causes of death listed above are tied to older age. What would be interesting is the number of homicides in each age group. Let's face it, the older a person gets, the higher the chance of death by any cause.
Say age 25-30. What is the number one cause of death. Probably not Alzheimers.

This may shed some light on what I'm talking about.

http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pd...oup_2010-a.pdf
Ages 1-44 Homicide is in the top 5 and #2 In age group 15-22
Sadly in the age group 1-4 it is 3rd.

Yep, I have unfortunately seen quite a bit of that. Several summers ago I made three in less than 30 days (a very rough month I will not forget). All in the same area, all the same reason. To be perfectly clear, these were not "accidents" or neglect or illness related. The mother or the father or boyfriend, whatever, killed the baby because it wouldn't stop crying, or loud playing, or being hungry. Their emotional affect on the scene (before they had an audience) was of complete annoyance with all the questions and demands. Once they had an audience, the screaming and writhing on the ground would start.
Try to imagine the emotional toil of trying to save a dying child while the killer is standing there glareing at you for asking questions....

Local city government formed groups, did studies, implemented programs. They danced all around the problem, came up with different names for it, burned through a boatload of tax money.

Jeff-

For that very reason I could NEVER be a first responder or an officer. I'd be the one in jail after seeing that a couple times, I can't deal with anything done to kids, that is not a COMPLETE accident!