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| Topic | As a truck driver I'm required to pass a physical every 2 yrs (gun control) |
| Yellow 02/18/18 3:57:09 AM #30: | ASlaveObeys posted... Tractor trailers kill way more people than guns http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/large-trucks/fatalityfacts/large-trucks A total of 3,986 people died in large truck crashes in 2016. Seventeen percent of these deaths were truck occupants, 66 percent were occupants of cars and other passenger vehicles, and 16 percent were pedestrians, bicyclists or motorcyclists. The number of people who died in large truck crashes was 27 percent higher in 2016 than in 2009, when it was the lowest it has been since the collection of fatal crash data began in 1975. The number of truck occupants who died was 47 percent higher than in 2009. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States In 2013, there were 73,505 nonfatal firearm injuries (23.2 injuries per 100,000 U.S. citizens),[2][3] and 33,636 deaths due to "injury by firearms" (10.6 deaths per 100,000 U.S. citizens).[4] These deaths consisted of 11,208 homicides,[5] 21,175 suicides,[4] 505 deaths due to accidental or negligent discharge of a firearm, and 281 deaths due to firearms use with "undetermined intent".[4] Of the 2,596,993 total deaths in the US in 2013, 1.3% were related to firearms. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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