In a world where all terrorist attacks are not equal

Re:In a world where all terrorist attacks are not equal by hellofunk on Saturday November 14, 2015 @04:02PM (#10567237)

I learned a little while back that there are 250 gun deaths every day in the U.S. That's the equivalent of 2 of the Paris attacks, every single day. A staggering figure of close to 100K gun deaths every year, or 30x the 9/11 deaths. So while they aren't necessarily "terrorist"-related in the common sense of the term, they certainly bring terror to many families and neighborhoods.

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Re:In a world where all terrorist attacks are not equal by DanBC on Saturday November 14, 2015 @05:07PM (#10567477)

The US has about 16,000 gun deaths per year. (with a bunch more deaths by suicide). That's about 40 per day.

In 2013 CDC say: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Sta...

> in 2013, firearms (excluding BB and pellet guns) were used in

> 84,258 nonfatal injuries (26.65 per 100,000 U.S. citizens) [2] and

> 11,208 deaths by homicide (3.5 per 100,000),[3]

> 21,175 by suicide with a firearm,[4]

> 505 deaths due to accidental discharge of a firearm,[4] and

> 281 deaths due to firearms-use with "undetermined intent"[5] for a total of 33,169 deaths related to firearms (excluding firearm deaths due to legal intervention).

That would be about 90 per day. US police shoot and kill about 1,000 people per year, but weirdly they don't count so we don't have robust numbers.

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Re:In a world where all terrorist attacks are not equal by hellofunk on Saturday November 14, 2015 @05:27PM (#10567554)

I was referring to a report by the Brady Campaign that in 2012 there were over 90K gun deaths in that particular year. I saw this recently on the news, and the stats stuck in my head for obvious reasons.

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Re:In a world where all terrorist attacks are not equal by dogma1138 on Saturday November 14, 2015 @05:58PM (#10567658)

There wasn't a single year with 90K gun related deaths, especially not in 2012, they might have had numbers for total "gun related casualties" which includes injuries, homicides, suicides and accidental discharges which might be closer to the actual figures. These are the FBI figures https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/... so shy under 9K crime related gun death.

With all honesty that figure should've made any sensible person give it the sniff test even if it was released by the NRA yet alone by the Brady Campaign. So either the total report is BS, the figures weren't for fatalities but for all casualties or your memory isn't as good as you think it is or any combination of all of the above.

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Re:In a world where all terrorist attacks are not equal by r-w on Saturday November 14, 2015 @04:18PM (#10567301)

Source? Even the most extreme number I could find (in the conservative news section of About.com) made a more conservative estimate: http://usconservatives.about.com/od/capitalpunishment/a/Putt...

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Re:In a world where all terrorist attacks are not equal by hellofunk on Saturday November 14, 2015 @04:27PM (#10567335)

It was on the T.V. news, I think a CNN report that I saw that, in October. 250 gun deaths per day they reported.

Edit: I was referring to a report by the Brady Campaign that in 2012 there were over 90K gun deaths in that particular year. I saw this recently on the news, and the stats stuck in my head for obvious reasons.

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