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Let me be more precise. Human driving killed 42,939 people in the US in 2021.

• rad_gruchalski 3y ago
  Apparently it’s 45,404. That’s still a little bit less than people killed by a gun the same year (48,830), and killed by opioids (nearly twice as many: 80,411). Let’s not forget an estimated 300k/year deaths related to obesity. Source: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm. Whataboutism but puts those numbers in perspective.
  • dghlsakjg 3y ago
    The obesity deaths are comorbidity, which is… not to say that obesity killed them, but that it may have been a factor. E.g. obese 55 year olds that have a heart attack are in there, even though it is entirely possible for non-obese individuals to have heart attacks at young ages. Guns… most of those are suicides, and that stat is uniquely American in terms of developed countries. Opioids… also almost entirely self-inflicted (not willingly, but getting flattened by a bus is different than getting accidentally hooked) Car stats also don’t count the incredible number of people who have lifelong or major injuries due to cars, which I would imagine is much higher. I feel pretty comfortable saying that a majority of people I know have been injured by cars, something that isn’t true for opioids or guns.
    • 0cf8612b2e1e 3y ago
      >Guns… most of those are suicides, and that stat is uniquely American in terms of developed countries. That seemed unbelievable to me, so I had to do some checking. The CDC[0] put 48k suicides in 2021, and attributed 55% to guns. Leaving us with 26.4k suicide gun deaths. While still a large number, there are still a significant portion of GP's 48k gun deaths which were not self inflected. [0] https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/suicide-data-statistics.html https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/suicide-data-statistics.html