Jean Laeremans wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:00 AM, geoff <[email protected]> wrote: >> Whilst I grant my 50,000 was wrong it was a lot closer than 624!!! And >> 'only' 11624 gun homicides still makes my point. That is still TEN times our >> rate per head of population. > > > "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated 52,447 > deliberate and 23,237 accidental non-fatal gunshot injuries in the > United States during 2000.[4] The majority of gun-related deaths in > the United States are suicides,[5] with firearms used in 16,907 > suicides in the United "
Hi Jean, Recent figures are significantly lower. -- Regards, Pete http://pete-theisen.com/ http://elect-pete-theisen.com/ _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
