> > Will give US accidental gun death statistics for years through 2000.
> >
> > For 2000
> > Number of Deaths 776
> > Population 275,264,999
> > Crude Rate 0.28
> > Age-Adjusted Rate** 0.28
> >
>
> Note that deaths are usually quoted as a number per 100,000 people,
> which is the case above. For comparison, below I've listed some other
> death rates (mostly from NSC's web page). Note that the rate for deaths
> from falls is 20 times that quoted above for accidental gun death. I
> don't have a number handy for "homicide by gun", but that would be an
> interesting addition to this table.
>
> deaths per hundred
> thousand per year cause
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> 870 U.S. death rate (total for all causes)
> 200 coronary heart disease
> 16 motor vehicles
> 12 suicide
> 8 homicide
> 6 falls
> 1.4 fire
> 0.4 air or space transport
> 0.3 struck by falling object (NOT meteorite!)
> 0.02 lightning
> 0.003 fireworks
> 0.00001 struck by small meteorite
Looks like we need sidewalk insurence before we bother with gun insurence.
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