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I was perusing the National Saftey Council's website for a work project and ran upon the page below outlining one's lifetime odds of dying. They show the odds of dying via "gun assault" at 1 in 285. I know things are bad in some areas but really!? I don't believe that BS for one second. Maybe these odds are strictly relating to Chicago, Detroit, and DC metro areas but not the entire nation. Some of the other non-health related stats suicide (1 in 91) and motor vehicle crash (1 in 102) seem to be inflated as well.



National Safety Councils "Odds of Dying"

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What about "Natural Causes"? Confused
 
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Without researching the numbers, I recall that 15,000 people are killed by guns a year (not including about the same number by suicide). Dividing that number by 300,000,000 (approx. population) gives a yearly chance of 0.00005. Multiply that by 70 = 0.0035, or 1 in 286.

Of course many people die by guns that aren’t “assaults.” A significant number are accidents, and even though they’re listed separately, I’m not sure how that fits.

Also, it ignores the fact that the figures are based on national averages. Being a certain race, a certain age, and living in certain areas can either increase one’s chances of being killed by gunfire, or reduce it. Someone who doesn’t ride a bicycle ever has very little chance of being killed while riding a bicycle.




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Without researching the numbers, I recall that 15,000 people are killed by guns a year (not including about the same number by suicide). Dividing that number by 300,000,000 (approx. population) gives a yearly chance of 0.00005. Multiply that by 70 = 0.0035, or 1 in 286.

Of course many people die by guns that aren’t “assaults.” A significant number are accidents.


There's separate listings for gun assault, suicide, and accidental gun discharges. If they were all combined I'd be likely to believe the 1 in 285 statistic.


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Without researching the numbers, I recall that 15,000 people are killed by guns a year (not including about the same number by suicide). Dividing that number by 300,000,000 (approx. population) gives a yearly chance of 0.00005. Multiply that by 70 = 0.0035, or 1 in 286.

Of course many people die by guns that aren’t “assaults.” A significant number are accidents.


Some number of those 15,000 were justifiably killed with a gun, and some number of those killed accidentally were strait-up idiots, and some number lived in shit-hole areas. The odds of one in 286 don't apply to every individual as some are "exposed" to different/more risk factors.
 
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From the link:

Source: National Safety Council estimates based on data from National Center for Health Statistics—Mortality Data for 2015, as compiled from data provided by the 57 vital statistics jurisdictions through the Vital Statistics Cooperative Program. Population and life expectancy data are from the U.S. Census Bureau. Deaths are classified on the basis of the Tenth Revision of the World Health Organization’s “The International Classification of Diseases” (ICD). Numbers following titles refer to External Cause of Morbidity and Mortality classifications in ICD-10.

Link to details on the data:
http://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all...-dying/data-details/

You can download an Excel spreadsheet as well.



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Also, it ignores the fact that the figures are based on national averages. Being a certain race, a certain age, and living in certain areas can either increase one’s chances of being killed by gunfire, or reduce it. Someone who doesn’t ride a bicycle ever has very little chance of being killed while riding a bicycle.




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What about "Natural Causes"? Confused


The top three would be considered natural causes. I'm surprised that stroke isn't listed.

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Without researching the numbers, I recall that 15,000 people are killed by guns a year (not including about the same number by suicide). Dividing that number by 300,000,000 (approx. population) gives a yearly chance of 0.00005. Multiply that by 70 = 0.0035, or 1 in 286.

Of course many people die by guns that aren’t “assaults.” A significant number are accidents, and even though they’re listed separately, I’m not sure how that fits.



Why multiply by 70?



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Originally posted by sigfreund:
Without researching the numbers, I recall that 15,000 people are killed by guns a year (not including about the same number by suicide). Dividing that number by 300,000,000 (approx. population) gives a yearly chance of 0.00005. Multiply that by 70 = 0.0035, or 1 in 286.

Of course many people die by guns that aren’t “assaults.” A significant number are accidents, and even though they’re listed separately, I’m not sure how that fits.



Why multiply by 70?


"Lifetime" odds. 70 years in a life, on average.
 
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Originally posted by sigfreund:
Without researching the numbers, I recall that 15,000 people are killed by guns a year (not including about the same number by suicide). Dividing that number by 300,000,000 (approx. population) gives a yearly chance of 0.00005. Multiply that by 70 = 0.0035, or 1 in 286.

Of course many people die by guns that aren’t “assaults.” A significant number are accidents, and even though they’re listed separately, I’m not sure how that fits.



Why multiply by 70?


After figuring the odds per YEAR he multiplied that by 70 YEARS for an estimated lifetime risk.



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Someone who doesn’t ride a bicycle ever has very little chance of being killed while riding a bicycle.



Exactly---if you are a black male street gang member under 35 and live in certain areas of Chicago, Baltimore, or St. Louis, your odds of being killed or injured in a "Gun" assault are much higher than those quoted and may approach 1:1, for the rest of us the odds are much lower. In fact for most of us, the odds are vanishingly slim.
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Where's 'clothes shopping with spouse'?



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Originally posted by sigfreund:
Without researching the numbers, I recall that 15,000 people are killed by guns a year (not including about the same number by suicide). Dividing that number by 300,000,000 (approx. population) gives a yearly chance of 0.00005. Multiply that by 70 = 0.0035, or 1 in 286.

Of course many people die by guns that aren’t “assaults.” A significant number are accidents, and even though they’re listed separately, I’m not sure how that fits.



Why multiply by 70?


"Lifetime" odds. 70 years in a life, on average.


I'll buy how he got the math then and I'm assuming that's how the Safety Chart got the numbers too.

But I'm not buying that method. My argument isn't with Sigfreund as he's just the one who reverse engineered the numbers. I just don't think the numbers are right even at just face value.

I don't have the mathematical proof, maybe somebody else does.



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Where's 'clothes shopping with spouse'?

It's covered. Either "Heart Attack" or "Suicide", take your pick.

I knew a guy who died of a stroke while driving his wife somewhere. So far as I know, she was never charged.


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