Falling Killed 126 Times More People Than Rifles
BY Herschel Smith
3 years, 7 months ago
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) 2018 National Vital Statistics show 37,455 people died from unintentional falls throughout the year.
The same CDC data shows unintentional firearm deaths for 2018 came in at 458, which means accidental death by falling was about 82 times more likely than accidental death via any kind of firearm.
The numbers become especially pertinent to today’s political climate when FBI Unified Crime Report figures are brought into the equation. The FBI figures look at the intentional, criminal use of firearms, and show a total of 297 deaths from rifles of any kind in 2018. This means accidental death by falling occurred 126 times more often than intentional death by a rifle of any kind in 2018.
Breitbart News reported other FBI figures for 2018 showing death by hammers and clubs far exceeded death by rifles of any kind as well. Whereas there were 297 deaths by rifle, 443 people were killed with hammers, clubs, or other “blunt objects.”
I’ve discussed the dangers of assault hammers before, and as an engineer I certainly know about fall protection and the dangers of a fall, engaging in safe practices when I’m elevated, including in a tree stand.
But if I engage in more safe practices than the average person, does that mean we should outlaw falls, maybe? Or perhaps we should outlaw any activity that means placing your body more than 6′ off the ground?
For the children. I don’t hear doctors complaining about falls, and yet I know they treat falls commonly in the ER of most hospitals.
Since they’re focused on rifles instead of falls, I can only conclude they don’t care about the children.
On April 7, 2021 at 8:16 am, Fred said:
If you account for certain urban centers and certain demographics you end up with a total death rate of around 1% for all gun types and every situation whether accidental or purposeful. And, in fact, there are more self-defense gun shootings than all “gun crime” combined.
If the government news would simply report the number of self defense shootings every day the crime rate would drop to near zero. The government media is doing a grave disservice to the American people by not warning them of their likely hood to be shot if they do something stupid enough to deserve it.
The real numbers tell us to stay out of certain urban centers and to avoid doing (other) stupid things so you don’t get shot. That’s what the government numbers and its news outlets isn’t telling you.
And, they are hiding and manipulating these data in a generations long plan to enslave you. The plan is open source and the people behind it are publicly on record but nobody is going to do a thing about it.
On April 7, 2021 at 10:07 am, Torcer said:
Maybe it’s time we repealed the law of gravity.
Affluent Prep School Told Students To Stop Saying ‘Newton’s Laws’ To ‘Decenter Whiteness’: REPORT
https://dailycaller.com/2021/03/10/affluent-prep-school-stop-saying-newtons-laws-decenter-whiteness-report-bari-weiss/
An affluent New York prep school reportedly told students to call Newton’s Laws of Motion the “three fundamental laws of physics” in attempts to “decenter whiteness.”
On April 7, 2021 at 3:17 pm, Ned2 said:
We SHOULD outlaw falls!!
And then cover the entire planet with 18″ of packing peanuts. For the children or something.