I decided to check on our Anti-Gun friends and I almost had to wear galoshes because of all the gun lubricant they were producing. I want to start with Moms Demand’s Facebook page because I did not know that the NRA had so much money, we bought the whole election and then we will visit our friends from the Cult Coalition to Stop Gun Rights Violence who are also despondent, but may actually become gun owners.
(A quick note: It seems that in both groups, most of their faithful are still in shock about the election’s result and cannot even post a wail, so I had to collect from several entries for the collages.)
As I said…. a lot of gun lubrication. Of course I do not believe for one second that they will just simply go away, but it is good to know their core foundations were built on sand and we can rock them as much as we want. Never forget ours is a war of attrition.
Where are these people getting the 300+ thousand deaths by firearms number? Here’s the latest available info (please let me know if there is anything newer) from the CDC. Text in parentheses are numbers that I calculated out based on the CDC’s own percentages. Let me know if I got any numbers wrong.
All causes …………………………………….2,626,418
1. Diseases of heart …………………………..614,348
2. Malignant neoplasms ………………………..591,699
3. Chronic lower respiratory diseases …………147,101
4. Accidents (unintentional injuries) …………….. 136,053 *(Includes 1,310 firearm related deaths – 1% of total)
5. Cerebrovascular diseases …………………..133,103
6. Alzheimer’s disease…………………………93,541
7. Diabetes mellitus …………………………76,488
8. Influenza and pneumonia …………….55,227
9. Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis ……48,146
10. Intentional self-harm (suicide) …42,773 *(Includes 21,335 firearm inflicted suicides – 49.8% of total)
11. Septicemias……………………….38,940
12. Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis ………..38,170
13. Essential hypertension and hypertensive renal disease. . 30,221
14. Parkinson’s disease …………………..26,150
15. Pneumonitis due to solids and liquids …………….18,792
. . . All other causes …………………….535,666
*(Firearms (Homicide)………………..10,953)
“Firearm—In 2014, 33,599 persons died from firearm injuries in the United States (Tables 18 and 19), accounting for 16.8% of all injury deaths in that year. The age-adjusted death rate from firearm injuries (all intents) did not change significantly in 2014 from 2013. The two major component causes of firearm injury deaths in 2014 were suicide (63.5%) and homicide (32.6%). The age-adjusted death rate for firearm homicide decreased 2.8%, from 3.6 in 2013 to 3.5 in 2014. The rate for firearm suicide did not change.”
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
I’ve seen the number used in several places. They’re apparently using the total number of people killed in firearms-related deaths since the AWB sunset in 2004. Sometimes it’s a different number that reflects the total number of firearm deaths since Sandy Hook. Sometimes it’s the number of firearms injuries per year.
It’s their new way of trying to further inflate their numbers for shock value… and if course their moron followers lap it up and misquote it so that 300k death’s per year becomes another “lie told often enough”. It’s 25+ years after the “40% of firearms are sold without a background check” was first used, and we’re still listening to that bullshit argument.
I had to look up what “Malignant neoplasms” are – to save folks the effort, it’s basically cancer.
It’s evidently not that important because it’s only the #2 killer ending the lives of 600,000 resident so the USA each year.
Nothing to see here – move along…
Thank you Sir Zog. I didn’t think to include the more general terms. I’ll do an edit later.