Gun Control

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That is incorrect in a couple of ways. Automobile accidents do kill more Americans every year than guns do, but the drunk drivers do not. Actually deaths due to drunk driving have decreased by over 50% since the early 80's. There were actually more gun homocides in 2010 than fatalities due to drunk driving with homocide only being about 1/3 of all gun deaths..

Drunk Driving Fatalities - National Statistics | Century Council
Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence

We have made dramatic progress in reducing total deaths due to drunk driving, not just on a statistical level, as a nation, although though not enough.

We have another problem in that statistics about gun deaths are all over the place depending on who is publishing them.

These are a good place to start (and about as likely to be objective as any):
FASTSTATS - Injuries
FASTSTATS - Homicide

This is a good background cite:
FBI — Uniform Crime Reports

One thing that stands out is that adolescents and young adults both commit most of the gun crimes and are the most common victims. They have been responsible for most all of the mass shootings as well. Perhaps that is where we need to start, sorta like managing the age for legal drinking.

Here are the real murderers. Close to a million per year. CDC report. Somewhat ok. Coat hangers responsible for more mass murders than guns.
Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2009


Murder Chart

How many abortions are performed at each stage of pregnancy?

The following table lists both the percentage of abortions performed during various stages of pregnancy, along with the total yearly abortions at each stage, based on a total of 1.2 million abortions per year.

Gestational Age	Percentage	Yearly Total
Less than 9 weeks	61.8%	749,232
9-10 weeks	17.1%	207,312
11-12 weeks	9.1%	110,324
13-15 weeks	6.6%	80,015
16-20 weeks	3.8%	46,069
21+ weeks	1.5%	18,185

Source: Guttmacher Institute, 2011, August. Facts on Induced Abortion in the United States. [PDF]




Definition of HOMICIDE

1
: a person who kills another

2
: a killing of one human being by another


"By all the criteria of modern molecular biology, life is present from the moment of conception." Dr. Hymie Gordon, Chairman, Department of Genetics at the Mayo Clinic