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fecnik wrote:interesting find. People will still have anxiety from all the media hype.

And yet, amazingly, the 1:5 chance of dying from heart disease won't get them off their butts.

Assuming a 78 year lifespan, that's 1:390 for any given year. That means your risk of dying from a heart attack this year is only slightly lower than your chance of ever being killed by a firearm. (Of course, this assumes an even distribution with regard to age; realistically, your chance of death by firearm probably peaks in the "grunt soldier" years, while your risk of heart disease continues to increase throughout your lifetime.) You're also three times more likely to die in a car wreck than to be killed by a firearm, but that won't convince them to drive more carefully.

I'm too lazy to go dig through the sources to confirm and/or get more detail, but I was looking at http://reason.com/archives/2006/08/11/d ... terrorized" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; which gives a lifetime risk of being murdered of 1:210, and http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/envir ... derway.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; which shows a lifetime risk of dying from assault by firearm of 1:325. Considering the latter might also include justifiable homicides, (and possibly even wartime deaths) taking those numbers together leads one to infer that the odds of being murdered using something other than a firearm are higher that I might have thought.

Anybody bored enough to analyze their sources for more information?