>Riding inside a car, van or truck:

My claim was a car accident not strictly, riding as a passenger. I'll assume you weren't trying to be deceptive and provide the mortality rates from all vehicle related deaths:

"Any motor vehicle incident 1 in 114"

So yes, Americans are 3 times more likely to die in a car accident than by a gun. For Americans, use your own life experience: How many people do you know who have died in or by cars vs gun violence. Which one is fear mongered more?

Assuming you have 400 friends/acquaintances the probability of you not knowing anyone who's died in a car accident ~ 3%[1]. The probability of you not knowing anyone who's died in a gun accident is 47% [2]

Center for Disease Control has more comprehensive figures: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm

[1] (113/114)^400

[2] (535/536)^400

You just conflated "any motor vehicle", which obviously includes such fairly dangerous vehicles as motorcycles, with "car".

And the comment I replied to specifically talked about car accidents.

I'll assume you weren't trying to be deceptive...

you left out: "Motor Vehicle Crash 1 in 102"

http://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/preventable-death-ov...

Motor vehicle ≠ car.

and passenger doesn't equal all car accidents.

You keep posting this source, but I am extremely skeptical, considering that since 2010, gun related homicides in the US has consistently ranged between 8000 and 13000 per year, where the number of people to die in automobile accidents in the US typically hovers between 30,000 to 40,000. Also, given that Business Insider is essentially a blog site at this point, I don't see how they arrived at those numbers.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Sta...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

They're posting death rates of being a passenger not dying because of exposure to cars (passenger, driver, pedestrian etc). They should retract their position or they're being deceptive.