[IMPALA MAN]

Originally Posted by out2kayak

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?

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.