Quote Originally Posted by drone View Post
A biased news source that lumps suicides in with gun violence and does not state that fact.

On traffic deaths: Drunk driving is down and vehicles are safer, hence fewer deaths on the roads.

The latest CDC report, 2010. Table 10 is the one you want.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr61/nvsr61_04.pdf

Motor Vehicle accidents - 35,332
Accidental firearm deaths - 606
Suicide by firearm - 19,392
Suicide by other means - 18,972
Homicide by firearm - 11,078
And for grins, Falls - 26,009. When the missus tells you to clean the gutters, she is really just trying to kill you.
Shooting yourself in the head on purpose with a gun certainly qualifies as "gun violence" in my book. I see nothing wrong with that including the suicide numbers. I want to know how many people died by gun. What it's leaving out are all of the other deaths from guns that are not a suicide or a homicide. For example, a "legal" shooting to death of a person where the killer is not charged or not convicted. George Zimmerman, for example. If anything, the gun violence number is understated as far as I'm concerned.