...or this:
Diseases of heart...........................652,091
2. Malignant neoplasms (Cancer)................559,312
Cerebrovascular diseases (Strokes)..........143,579
Chronic lower respiratory diseases..........130,933
Accidents (unintentional injuries)..........117,809
Diabetes mellitus ...........................75,119
Alzheimer’s disease .........................71,599
Influenza and pneumonia .....................63,001
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis..43,901
Septicemia..................................34,136
Intentional self-harm (suicide).............32,637
Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis.........27,530
Hypertension and hypertensive renal disease.24,902
Parkinson’s disease ........................19,544
Pneumonitis due to solids and liquids ......16,959
Simple Falling Down.............................19,656
Assault (homicide) by discharge of firearms.....12,352
Accidental discharge of Firearm....................789
Suicide by Discharge of Firearms................17,002
Accidental Drowning and Submersion...............3,582
Accidental Poisoning............................23,618
Motor Vehicle Accidents.........................45,343
Non-Transport Accidents.........................69,368
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr56/nvsr56_10.pdf
*****
.....or this:
The present media wave about the tragic death of Trayvon Martin is for me, an outsider, a fascinating lesson in race, politics, and media perversity in America.
The impression is being generated that young black men are continuously hunted by white men, and killed.
So I wanted to know the exact figures. The most recent, those of 2009, I could find are on the
site of the Department of Justice.
About 13% of the population is black. About 80% is white (this number includes Hispanics).
In 2009, 2,963 white individuals were killed by white offenders. White offenders killed 209 black individuals.
In that same year, 2,604 black individuals were killed by black offenders. And 454 white individuals were killed by black offenders.
As we see, there is cross-racial deadly violence, but offenders mainly cause victims within their own race; it is so-called intra-racial.
What about recent decades? Murders surveyed between 1974 and 2004 show that 52% of the offenders were black, 48% were white. Of the victims, 51% were white, 47% were black.
In that period, 86% of white murders had whites offenders, and 94% of black murders had black offenders.
There may be a hunt by white vigilantes for innocent young black men in Florida — if it exists, the figures show this is a limited phenomenon. Trayvon Martin’s death should be thoroughly investigated and the vigilante should be brought to trial in case he broke the law. But such a crime is an exception.
The main problem for young black men is not violent white men chasing them. It is black on black violence.
The number of net cross-racial violence in 2009 shows that blacks killed more whites than whites killed blacks. To be exact: 245 more.
The PJ Tatler » Does Trayvon Martin Killing Reveal Epidemic of Racial Violence?
*****
.....or this:
What can be done about guns and violent crime?
Taking all guns away from the entire U.S. population would be:
- Unconstitutional under the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and under many state constitutions
- Unfeasible (too many guns owned by too many people; guns are easily hidden or smuggled; guns last a very long time)
- Politically impossible (almost half the households own guns)
- Futile (crime rates don’t show correlation to the gun supply)
The practical answer is to try to keep guns away from criminals and children:
- Instant background check at gun dealer for all gun sales.
- Permit to carry handgun (background check and safety course required) outside home or place of business.
- Instant background check for private sales of guns (between friends, neighbors, etc.)
- Laws requiring guns be stored inaccessible to children.
What doesn’t work:
~~
Ban certain types of guns (e.g., "assault weapons")
Doesn't work, because:
- "Assault weapons" are about 1 percent of the guns used in crime.
- Criminals want the same guns as law-abiding people—handguns that are small, concealable, reliable, and affordable.
- Criminals use whatever guns are available; if one type is banned, criminals will switch to whatever they can get.
~~
Ban inexpensive handguns:
Doesn't work, because:
- Criminals prefer reliable, middle-priced guns; 80 percent of the handguns used in crime do NOT fall under the government definition of "Saturday night special" (BATF definition of "Saturday Night Special"; statistic from Kleck's Targeting Guns)
- Criminals use whatever guns are available; if one type is banned, criminals switch to whatever they can get.
- This type of ban merely keeps poor people from buying guns for self protection.
- This type of ban dates to the post-Civil War "Black Codes," laws intended to keep blacks down after they were freed from slavery.
~~"
Smart" guns:
Doesn't work, because:
- If computer inside gun mechanism "crashes," gun may not work when needed; for this reason police don’t want "smart" guns.
- "Smart" gun is likely to tempt owner to leave gun accessible to children on the assumption that the internal computer is foolproof and will prevent children from firing gun; "smart" gun is not a substitute for standard safety practices (like safe storage).
~~
Suing gun manufacturers:
Doesn't work, because:
- Increases in gun supply don’t cause increases in crime.
- Lawsuits ask courts to ban products that are made legally under laws passed by Congress and state legislatures.
- Lawsuits ask courts to blame manufacturers for behavior of criminals who misuse the products.
- If gun lawsuits succeed, the next targets may be producers of cars, prescription drugs, alcoholic beverages, and red meat; all these products may be misused by a few but are actually used correctly and safely by millions of people every day.
Gunsafe fact sheet
*****
....or any of the other sources I and others reulerly link to? You've never seen them, ever?
If not, then you don't pay attention.