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Originally posted by Strange Famous
And so 10,000 Americans a year are killed by guns...
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Can you show me a reliable source for this number? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) in 2001 there were:
802 deaths by firearm
3,281 deaths by drowning
42,443 deaths by motor vehicle accidents
http://webapp.cdc.gov/cgi-bin/broker...01537&_debug=0
You could possibly outlaw motor vehicles and water along with firearms in a communist state, but what kind of life would that be?
Edit: These are unintentional deaths, of course. These are deaths that could be prevented if the mechanisms that caused them were eradicated. Unfortunately, homicide will always occur, firearms or not.