Deaths Per Year

[Secret Squirrel]

Interesting Stats

 

[brand0n5o4]

the trigger locks on the hammers made me laugh..

 

[Bill Baldwin]

I've seen this floating around a couple of times and it's really not accurate. Some information is outdated and some is, for whatever reason, intentionally inflated. The correct information is:
Tobacco use: 443,000 (1)
Medical Errors: 98,000 (2)
Alcohol Abuse: 15,183 (3)
Motor Vehicle Accidents: 35,498 (4)
Unintentional Poisoning: 33,041 (4)
Drug Abuse: 27,000* (5)
Unintentional Falls: 26,009 (4)
Non-firearm Homicides: 5,181 (4)
Firearm Homicides: 11,078* (4)

1 CDC Smoking & Tobacco Use Fact Sheet (2012)

2. To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System (2000)

3. CDC Alcohol Use FastStats (2009)

4 CDC WISQARS fatal injury reports (2010)
* This includes all homicides, including justified homicides by private civilians as well as off duty police. This also includes homicides with BB guns, air operated guns and spring operated guns.

5. UPI U.S. death every 19 minutes from overdose (2007)
*This only includes unintentional fatalities and does not include suicide by poisoning.