"Gun violence is a major problem in the united states and gun rights advocates refuse to acknowledge that fact"

Lets run with that absurd notion.

leading cause of injury and related deaths from the CDC 1990 to 2000. All sexes races and ages combined.

1 Unintentional MV Traffic 42443

2 Suicide Firearm 16869

3 Unintentional Fall 15019

4 Unintentional Poisoning 14078

5 Homicide Firearm 11348

6 Unintentional Unspecified 7218

7 Suicide Suffocation 6198

8 Unintentional Suffocation 5555

9 Suicide Poisoning 5191

10 Unintentional Fire/burn 3423

leading cause of deaths from the CDC 1990 to 2000. All sexes races and ages combined.

1 Heart Disease 700142

2 Malignant Neoplasms 553768

3 Cerebrovascular 163538

4 Chronic Low. Respiratory Disease 123013

5 Unintentional Injury 101537

6 Diabetes Mellitus 71372

7 Influenza & Pneumonia 62034

8 Alzheimer's Disease 53852

9 Nephritis 39480

10 Septicemia 32238


It looks like we would need to ban autos, Suicide ,falling and Poisions ,Mcdonalds, Sugar, Tobacco and alchohol and Alzheimers before we even get close to people using guns.


BTW inanimate objects to not harm people people.