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Originally Posted by 724Skinsfan
I thought this was interesting. I would never have guessed 55%. In fact, I would have thought homicides, justified or unjustified, would overwhelmingly dominate the number of gun-related deaths. |
That's a good link.
But do you know what strikes me more than anything?
There was 31,000 gun related deaths, yet there are approx. 4.9 million tobacco related deaths in the world a year. In the US, there are 438,000 tobacco related deaths (approximately 1 in 5 deaths overall are tobacco related), and even MORE important, 38,000 (that's right 7k MORE deaths than guns) are directly related to SECOND HAND smoke. And people are up in arms about being able to defend yourself while cigarettes provide no defense.
Interesting that second hand smoke is statistically MORE deadly than guns themselves. WOW.
Tobacco-Related Mortality | OSH | CDC