Cause and Effect

These are the leading causes of death in the United States in 2011 (source: CDC):

1 Diseases of heart, 596,339
2 Malignant neoplasms, 575,313
3 Chronic lower respiratory diseases, 143,382
4 Cerebrovascular diseases, 128,931
5 Accidents (unintentional injuries), 122,777
6 Alzheimer’s disease, 84,691
7 Diabetes mellitus, 73,282
8 Influenza and pneumonia, 53,667
9 Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis, 45,731
10 Intentional self-harm (suicide), 38,285
11 Septicemia, 35,539
12 Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis, 33,539
13 Essential hypertension and hypertensive renal disease, 27,477
14 Parkinson’s disease, 23,107
15 Pneumonitis due to solids and liquids, 18,090

This is the approximate number of people who died in car accidents in 2009 (source: NHSTA):  35,000

This is how many people died from falling in 2011 (source: CDC): 26,631

 

This is how many murders there were in 2009 (source FBI): 12,996

Of those murders, this is how many were committed with firearms (source FBI): 8775

Just some numbers to consider before the gun grab begins.  Maybe we should ban gravity and automobiles before we consider banning guns.