Accident
Type |
Age |
|||||||
|
0-4 |
5-14 |
15-24 |
25-44 |
45-64 |
65-74 |
75+ |
Total |
All
Automobile |
900 |
1,500 |
10,500 |
13,300 |
9,200 |
2,700 |
4,900 |
43,000 |
Falls |
70 |
70 |
210 |
950 |
1,900 |
1,700 |
11,300 |
16,200 |
Poisoning
by solids, liquids |
60 |
40 |
800 |
6,800 |
3,200 |
300 |
500 |
11,700 |
Pedestrian1 |
250 |
300 |
750 |
1,300 |
1,400 |
450 |
850 |
5,300 |
Drowning |
450 |
350 |
700 |
1,250 |
650 |
230 |
270 |
3,900 |
Fires,
burns |
400 |
260 |
240 |
700 |
800 |
500 |
700 |
3,600 |
Suffocation
by ingested object |
100 |
20 |
30 |
250 |
400 |
500 |
2,100 |
3,400 |
Firearms |
20 |
60 |
150 |
190 |
110 |
30 |
40 |
600 |
Poisoning
by gases, vapors |
10 |
10 |
70 |
120 |
80 |
40 |
70 |
400 |
All
other causes |
700 |
400 |
1,100 |
3,000 |
3,200 |
1,600 |
4,500 |
14,500 |
TOTAL |
2,700 |
2,700 |
13,800 |
26,600 |
19,500 |
7,600 |
24,400 |
97,300 |
1994. http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcgvacci.html
http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcgvsupp.html
National Crime Victimization
Survey (NCVS) (1994)
James Madison said, “[The
Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess
over the people of almost every other nation...[where] the governments are
afraid to trust the people with arms.”
James Madison,The Federalist Papers, No. 46.
Thomas
Jefferson declared, “The constitution assert[s], that
all power is inherent in the people… that it is their right and duty to be at
all times armed.”
-Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824. Memorial Edition 16:45,
Lipscomb and Bergh, editors