Lying with statistics, I don't think that firearm homicide or firearm suicide (the categories in the second table) count as firearm accidental deaths (the category in the first graph).
-- rec -- On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 12:45 PM, cody dooderson <[email protected]> wrote: > That looked cool. I was particularily interested in what they said about > gun control( http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp ). I went to the > source of their information and it was totally different from what they > reported. > > They attribute the data to the source > *[120] Dataset: "20 Leading Causes of Unintentional Injury Deaths, United > States, 2007." U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National > Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Accessed September 1, 2010 at > http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/leadcaus10.html* > > And here is their graph. Notice that firearm deaths is 16th. > > > > > Here is the exact data i got from from > http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/leadcaus10.html for 2007 > Notice than firearm deaths are ranked both 4th and 5th. What is going on > here? Is this a Fox news source. Also, why did they just choose 2007? The > data goes back to 1999 > > 10 Leading Causes of Injury Deaths, United States > 2007, All Races, Both Sexes > > > Age Groups > Rank<1 1-85 > 1 > Unintentional > Suffocation > 959Unintentional > MV Traffic > 41,900 > 2 > Homicide > Unspecified > 174Unintentional > Poisoning > 29,824 > 3 > Unintentional > MV Traffic > 122Unintentional > Fall > 22,605 > 4 > Homicide > Other Spec., > classifiable > 86Suicide > Firearm > 17,350 > 5 > Unintentional > Drowning > 57Homicide > Firearm > 12,608 > 6 > Unintentional > Fire/burn > 39Suicide > Suffocation > 8,161 > 7 > Undetermined > Suffocation > 34Suicide > Poisoning > 6,356 > 8 > Homicide > Suffocation > 30Unintentional > Unspecified > 6,005 > 9 > Undetermined > Unspecified > 28Unintentional > Suffocation > 5,038 > 10 > Unintentional > Fall > 24Undetermined > Poisoning > 3,759***WISQARS**TM* *Produced By: Office of Statistics and Programming, > National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease > Control and Prevention* **** *Data Source: National Center for Health > Statistics (NCHS), National Vital Statistics System*** ******** ** > > > On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Robert J. Cordingley < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> From Abortion, Climate Change, Gun Control to Social Security and Taxes, >> the http://www.justfacts.com/ offers just the [distilled] facts on about >> 14 major topics. I thought this site with its emphasis on objectivity >> might perhaps be useful to the group. The sister (brother|sibling) site >> http://www.justfactsdaily.com/ may be more politically motivated and >> picking and choosing what to discuss. >> >> Thanks >> Robert C >> >> >> >> ==============================**============================== >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe >> http://redfish.com/mailman/**listinfo/friam_redfish.com<http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> >> > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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