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Originally Posted by JoeT
that number "may" be true, but it doesn't make you any more likely to die than any other country.
getting back to my initial question of why are "gun deaths" more tragic than deaths by any other instrument? suicide death rates, and homicide rates are statistically insignificant from other "first world countries", so why blame the gun?
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There is some truth in what you say Joe. Gun deaths are no more tragic than any other death. However:
* You ARE more likely to die in the USA than any other country. In fact gun deaths alone in the US are 2 times the total rates of homicide in any other 1st world country.
* If you take out gun homicide in the US, then the death per other means is quite similar to 2nd on the list - Finland. But overall, the homicide rates in the US including gun homicide is around 2.5 times that of Finland.
I was in Data analysis for about 18 years so like the number crunching, and can tell you these figures are anything but "statistically insignificant"
