{"id":49224,"date":"2015-01-09T23:19:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T06:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/09\/guns-are-now-killing-more-people-in-the-us-than-cars.html"},"modified":"2015-01-09T23:19:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T06:19:09","slug":"guns-are-now-killing-more-people-in-the-us-than-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/09\/guns-are-now-killing-more-people-in-the-us-than-cars.html","title":{"rendered":"Guns are now killing more people in the US than cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America has been concerned over highway safety for decades, and have done all sorts of things to make our roadways safer. And, by gosh, it seems to be working.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#39;According to data gathered by the Centres for Disease Control (CDC), deaths caused by cars in America are in long-term decline. Improved technology, tougher laws and less driving by young people have all led to safer streets and highways. Deaths by guns, though&mdash;the great majority suicides, accidents or domestic violence&mdash;have been trending slightly upwards. This year, if the trend continues, they will overtake deaths on the roads.&#39;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Clearly improving <i>gun<\/i> safety technology, passing tougher <i>gun<\/i> laws, or discouraging <i>gun<\/i> use ownership are off the table because FREEDOM. And, really, you can&#39;t even talk about guns as a public health matter, because MORE FREEDOM. <\/p>\n<p>So clearly the answer is that we need to defund the CDC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/united-states\/21638140-gun-now-more-likely-kill-you-car-bangers-v-bullets'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/vPyqhNSEc18wtG0qbXgIAVyZd7IXJz2yGsWSkPjtHuRuNA6EEqE00MEPmZwpgXeToFZeb3_HgtxicW_C3VR6BXfFIpopwEIPKLXFxBAfaIJca05Mawj5QBruxkq5r-QsAMZKh5ZUrE0IAQ74AAvPNrskVxxbLJbQwuM-JmR0Lrtk-WzUdQ=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/united-states\/21638140-gun-now-more-likely-kill-you-car-bangers-v-bullets'>Bangers v bullets<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nSafer with an open-top Corvette ACCORDING to data gathered by the Centres for Disease Control (CDC), deaths caused by cars in America are in long-term decline&#8230;.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/iYSU5TQ87Nu'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America has been concerned over highway safety for decades, and have done all sorts of things to make our roadways safer. And, by gosh, it seems to be working. &#39;According to data gathered by the Centres for Disease Control (CDC), deaths caused by cars in America are in long-term decline. Improved technology, tougher laws and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/09\/guns-are-now-killing-more-people-in-the-us-than-cars.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Guns are now killing more people in the US than cars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129255,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/24\/dark-things-fear-the-light-gun-freedom-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":49224,"position":0},"title":"Dark things fear the light (GUN FREEDOM! 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