04-19-2007, 08:01 PM
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Soul Duck
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: over here
Posts: 485
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Originally Posted by TheMercenary
Don't be a frigging tool... the point is that the statistics are not all that alarming when taken in the context of all deaths. 46,000 people died from MVA's and I don't hear you quoting some anti-auto site to make sensational claims. Death is a fact of life, here, over there, everywhere. I don't think this is a contest either. This is a discussion, keep it that way. Given that there were 2,400,000 deaths in the US in 2004 the figure of 12,000 deaths is a whopping 0.005% of all deaths in the US for that year.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr54/nvsr54_19.pdf |
That is an unrealistic comparison because guns are designed weapons and cars are not.
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