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More Americans are now killed by GUNS than car crashes as shootings become country's leading cause of death by trauma for the first time
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Guess we can cut the deaths in half by banning cars. - Surgeons at Westchester Medical Centre in New York state released research suggesting that more than 1.4million years of potential life are lost every year to gun crime
- Car crashes were the greatest cause of death until deaths from guns skyrocketed between 2009 and 2018
- The report, published in medical journal Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open, found gun deaths rose on average by 0.72 per cent every year
- Conversely, road accidents fell by 0.07 per cent each year that decade
- Suicides using guns rose from 18,735 in 2009 to 24,432 in 2018 and gun murders rose from 11,493 to 13,958
Posted by: Skidmark 2022-02-23 |
