Originally Posted By: ed good
mike: betcha if you lived in south Chicago, parts of LA or Detroit, etc, where the gun fire on the street is common, your attitude would not be so cavalier.


My attitude is not cavalier.

And the chances of our cause of death being homicide committed by gunmen are about 1 in 280.

Here are the top ten leading causes of death:

Heart disease: 597,689
Cancer: 574,743
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 138,080
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 129,476
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 120,859
Alzheimer's disease: 83,494
Diabetes: 69,071
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 50,476
Influenza and Pneumonia: 50,097
Intentional self-harm (suicide): 38,364

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm

From watching the news you can't tell that COPD and the flu kill many times more people than gunmen can you?

So when you are hiding in your atomic bomb shelter you built in 1962 you can comfort yourself with the thought that that cigar or gallon of ice cream is many times more likely to kill you than a bad man with a semi-auto rifle.

Hope that data comforts you and your nervous neighbors.


I am glad to be here.