Guns are now killing as many people as cars in the U.S

Re:Guns are now killing as many people as cars in the U.S by tomp on Thursday December 17, 2015 @12:21PM (#10752753)

I wonder how many of these guns belong to the police (and hence the murders can't be prevented by reducing civil gun ownership)...

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Re:Guns are now killing as many people as cars in the U.S by icebraining on Thursday December 17, 2015 @12:22PM (#10752770)

http://killedbypolice.net/

You can just subtract the numbers.

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Re:Guns are now killing as many people as cars in the U.S by largorn on Thursday December 17, 2015 @12:46PM (#10752964)

This is crazy. I recently stumbled upon the numbers for gun-killings by German police, I can't believe how much these numbers diverge:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffengebrauch_der_Polizei_in_... (Second column is "number of fatal shots", third is "total number of shots fired at people")

Of course, the USA have 4 times as many inhabitants and the German numbers are only related to gun-killings, not other methods. But still, they are in a completely different dimension.

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Re:Guns are now killing as many people as cars in the U.S by NiftyFifty on Thursday December 17, 2015 @12:24PM (#10752782)

10% demographic, when you break down the numbers last I checked. But ya.

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Re:Guns are now killing as many people as cars in the U.S by ocdtrekkie on Thursday December 17, 2015 @12:43PM (#10752940)

Well, arguably, the article states two-thirds of these gun deaths are suicides, so not many, to be fair.

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Re:Guns are now killing as many people as cars in the U.S by tootie on Thursday December 17, 2015 @12:26PM (#10752810)

I'd reckon that most incidents of police shooting civilians is due to civilians armed with guns.

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Re:Guns are now killing as many people as cars in the U.S by Carrok on Thursday December 17, 2015 @12:35PM (#10752876)

You'd reckon, eh? I'd beg to differ.

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Re:Guns are now killing as many people as cars in the U.S by tootie on Thursday December 17, 2015 @03:21PM (#10754224)

Seriously? There have been plenty of incidents in the news of police taking out a gunman who was either firing on people or threatening to. They just don't register as police violence because everyone knows they are justified.

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