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Dragonfighter wrote:
FWIW, 12,497 involved BAC .08+. So maybe call those apples the ND, Murder, Suicide to the gun related oranges?

Maybe alcohol should be illegal... Wait a second, didn't we try that?

WildBill wrote:What do people always try to relate things that aren't related or compare things that aren't comparable?

I think it a valid numerical comparison. Course, everyone is afraid of cancer and we assume that there are a lot of deaths, so it's also probably designed to be a bit "scary".
Regardless, unlike cancer, lots of those deaths could be avoided.

The problem is that you'll see a bunch of out of context quotes:
"Gun injuries cause twice as many deaths as cancer, five times as many as heart disease, and 15 times as many as infections."

And they'll be accepted as fact.

Regardless, those statistics are pretty grim for young people.