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"30,000 Americans have their lives cut short by guns" To put it in perspective (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deat
by lsh123 11y ago
"30,000 Americans have their lives cut short by guns"
To put it in perspective (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm):
Heart disease: 611,105
Cancer: 584,881
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 149,205
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 130,557
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 128,978
Alzheimer's disease: 84,767
Diabetes: 75,578
Influenza and Pneumonia: 56,979
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 47,112
Intentional self-harm (suicide): 41,149
Note that Accidents or Unintentional Injuries include (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm)
Unintentional fall deaths: 30,208
Motor vehicle traffic deaths: 33,804
Unintentional poisoning deaths: 38,851
Overall, I think we need to have Executive Order to cure Heart diseases and Cancer before we go after the guns.
- zarify 11y agoTo give more consideration to that argument than it's worth for a second, is there no government funded medical research into these medical issues in the US then? Add to the fact that you'd be talking about prevention, not cure for it to be a parallel to the gun issue. Shame that no government can try to do something about more than one issue at once, though. Imagine what it would be like if we could keep dangerous drivers off the streets, give those with mental illness the treatment they deserve, conduct medical research into preventing and curing life threatening illnessess, and stop deadly weapons from getting into the hands of those who would use them to harm others, but all at the same time!
- lsh123 11y ago"federal funding for cancer research is at the lowest point in decades..." http://www.asco.org/sites/www.asco.org/files/cancer_resarch_threatened_small.pdf http://www.asco.org/sites/www.asco.org/files/cancer_resarch_...
- DrScump 11y agoThat page doesn't give cancer research spending, just overall NIH budgets, and it ignores cancer research spending from outside of the NIH budget.