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Originally posted by Kadath
As long as we're reposting ignored information:
Further, from here(Stats are 2001 US): http://webapp.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/...options_10.html
11,000 DEATHS with guns...only 9,000 non-firearm homicides. So maybe there are more attacks with knives/axes/etc, but the gun attacks are, unsurprisingly, more fatal.
HA! I originally misspelled homicides in that post myself! Aren't I quite the arse?
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Kadath, you are comparing
ALL (caps for emphasis only) firearm related deaths versus only homicides. If you were to take out AD's and Suicides, that numbers would be much more in line.
Not a criticism for you Kadath, but this tactic is quite common with groups such as HCI and MM. They like to compare two very dissimilar sets of statistics and make people believe they are the same.