> > 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. ===== _________________________________________________ Jan William Coffey _________________________________________________ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l