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   Blood Thirsty Rightist GunSavage Cowards Will Soon Die More Often   
   From Gunshots Than Automobiles   
      
   Gun deaths to exceed car accident fatalities in 2015   
      
   Americunt savages contine to kill each other with their precious   
   guns.  Most rightists are too lazy to work, earn money and buy a   
   car.  That's why gun murders will soon exceed auto accidents as a   
   leading cause of death, but still not close to the world's worse   
   for profit health care system, championed by rightist imbeciles   
   who are too poor to afford their own funeral.   
      
   Car accidents have been the leading cause of non-medical deaths in   
   the US for decades, but new data shows that the number of firearm   
   fatalities will soon exceed traffic deaths for the first time.   
      
   While motor-vehicle deaths have been declining over the years, gun   
   fatalities have steadily increased, according to data from the   
   Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. Motor-vehicle deaths   
   reached a low point in 2010 and have decreased by 22 percent from   
   2005 to 2010, while shooting deaths have been gradually rising   
   since the late 1990’s.   
      
   Based on the data, shooting deaths will likely rise to 33,000 in   
   2015 and surpass the number of traffic fatalities, which are   
   predicted to be around 32,000 that year, Bloomberg News reports.   
   The news comes at a time when Americans are engaging in a   
   nationwide debate about gun control after 20-year-old Adam Lanza   
   massacred 26 people with an assault rifle at an Elementary School   
   in Newtown, Conn. If current trends continue, gun-related deaths   
   will only continue to increase.   
      
   “We’ve made policy decisions that have had the impact of making   
   the widest array of firearms available to the widest array of   
   people under the widest array of conditions,” Garen Wintemute,   
   director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the   
   University of California – Davis, told Bloomberg.   
      
   Although gun fatalities have increased, traffic fatalities have   
   decreased at a far steeper rate, due in part to advances in safety   
   technology. Traffic fatalities in 2011 were the lowest since 1949,   
   according to the National Highway Safety Administration.   
      
   And even though gun deaths increased, the rise has little to do   
   with violent crimes and murders, which have been reduced. The   
   increase in firearm deaths is mostly attributed to homicides,   
   suicides, and accidents – especially since many households now   
   have multiple guns. CDC data shows that about 85 Americans are   
   shot dead daily, 53 of which are suicides and one of which is   
   younger than 14. More than 200 people go to a US emergency room   
   each day to get treated for gunshot wounds.   
      
   Even though premeditated murders have declined, ‘mass murders’ may   
   be on the rise. USA TODAY reported that 774 people were murdered   
   by a ‘mass killer’ between 2006 and 2010. This year has also seen   
   an increase in the number of mass shootings, with 12 being shot to   
   death in a Colorado movie theater, 6 dying at the hands of a   
   shooter at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, and 26 being massacred at   
   the Elementary School in Connecticut.   
      
   It may soon be more likely to die from a gunshot wound than in a   
   car accident.   
      
   The Newtown shooting has prompted the Obama administration to take   
   action on gun control policies. Choosing Vice President Joe Biden   
   to lead an initiative to tackle gun violence on a policy level,   
   the president is addressing the nation’s concerns about the ease   
   of acquiring assault weapons, as well as examining other factors   
   that might cause someone to massacre so many people.   
      
   “Every day since, more Americans have died from gun violence. We   
   know such violence has terrible consequences for our society,” the   
   president said in a speech Wednesday. “I urge members of Congress   
   to hold votes on these measures next year in a timely manner.”   
      
      
   LOL!  fucking rednecks get better health care in prison than in   
   hospitals!   
      
   That's why the USA is a lawless sewer where a higher percentage of   
   the population is in prison than even in Red China.  And still   
   American savages are killing each other in record numbers, mainly   
   because shooting Americans is a favorite pasttime in that crack   
   den of a country.   
      
   1/4 Million Americans Die In Hospitals Every Year - For Profit   
   Health Care Killing Americans, there is no right to health care in   
   the USA, and that's fine by me because everyone knows that more   
   dead Americans equals a better world.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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