Reply #199: Thanks............ (sarcasm thingy)

[russ1943]

Poster of # 45 stated; "After all, drunk drivers kill far more people than guns do."

So in your opinion, a revised, more accurate statement would be something like;
After all, the number of people killed by drunk drivers is pretty much in line with the number of people killed with guns, if you subtract the suicides?

Thanks, really valuable information there.

FYI for the years 2006 & 2007 the number of people killed with firearms even after you subtract the suicides, still exceeds the number of people killed by drunk drivers.


National Vital Statistics Reports, Deaths Final Data for 2006 http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr57/nvsr57_14.pdf & Deaths Preliminary Data for 2007. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr58/nvsr58_01.pdf

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) National Center for Statistics and Analysis
http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811016.PDF