{"id":101704,"date":"2018-12-13T13:45:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T18:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=101704"},"modified":"2018-12-13T13:45:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T15:07:21","slug":"media-misses-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/media-misses-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Misses on Gun Deaths and Vehicle Deaths Once Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_101705\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/vox-photo.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"media-misses-suicide\" title=\"Media Misses on Gun Deaths and Vehicle Deaths Once Again\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101705\" title=\"Media Misses on Gun Deaths and Vehicle Deaths Once Again\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-101705\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/vox-photo-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Media Misses on Gun Deaths and Vehicle Deaths Once Again\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/vox-photo-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/vox-photo-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/vox-photo.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-101705\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vox is cherry picking data again&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released this month their annual \u201cUnderlying Cause of Death\u201d report, and the media has, predictably, zeroed in on <a href=\"https:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/controller\/datarequest\/D76;jsessionid=D223CB185B7233BA9B8EA8BF489D819A\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"media-misses-suicide\" title=\"Media Misses on Gun Deaths and Vehicle Deaths Once Again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data related to firearms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the rate of homicides committed with a firearm remained static between 2016 and 2017, while the suicide rate jumped from 7.1 per 100,000 people to 7.3. The overall rate of gun-related deaths also rose from 12 per 100,000 people to 12.2, which is about 1.6 points higher than the average since 1999.<\/p>\n<p>So why the media frenzy? First, the total number of people killed in firearm-related incidents in 2017 (39,773) was higher than ever, as the Huffington Post points out in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/us-gun-violence-deaths-2017_us_5c0fc9a4e4b0edf5a3a90308\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"media-misses-suicide\" title=\"Media Misses on Gun Deaths and Vehicle Deaths Once Again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this inflammatory headline<\/a>. But raw numbers don\u2019t mean anything in national statistics. The population of the United States has also been growing each year, which accounts for the rise in the number of \u201cgun deaths.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the media has also glommed on to the fact that gun-related deaths surpassed car-related deaths in 2017. Vox, for instance, published a piece titled, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/2018\/12\/11\/18135976\/gun-deaths-us-2017-suicide\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"media-misses-suicide\" title=\"Media Misses on Gun Deaths and Vehicle Deaths Once Again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guns killed more people than car crashes in 2017<\/a>\u201d and noted that the CDC puts the car crash death rate at <a href=\"https:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/controller\/datarequest\/D77;jsessionid=1527F55032248EFE3BCFAD4C3FC4C2D7\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"media-misses-suicide\" title=\"Media Misses on Gun Deaths and Vehicle Deaths Once Again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">11.9 per 100,000 people<\/a>, 0.3 points higher than the gun-related death rate.<\/p>\n<p>The problem, of course, is that nearly 60 percent of gun-related deaths are due to suicide, and the other 37 percent are due to homicide. It\u2019s tough to compare either of these types of events to car crashes, the vast majority of which are accidental. Also, unlike guns, the editors at Vox aren\u2019t calling for restrictions on car ownership, despite the fact that nearly as many people die in cars as are killed with firearms.<\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/everytown-victory-2018-over-nra-cockroaches\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"media-misses-suicide\" title=\"Media Misses on Gun Deaths and Vehicle Deaths Once Again\">Everytown Claims Victory in 2018 Over NRA \u2018Cockroaches\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The article addresses suicides after the break, citing a number of studies that claim to have found links between gun control and a reduction in suicide. But nowhere does the piece mention the fact that many countries outside the United States deal with comparable or higher suicide rates while enforcing strict gun control measures.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea, for example, has a suicide rate of <a href=\"https:\/\/gamapserver.who.int\/gho\/interactive_charts\/mental_health\/suicide_rates\/atlas.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"media-misses-suicide\" title=\"Media Misses on Gun Deaths and Vehicle Deaths Once Again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">29.6 deaths per 100,000<\/a> people, but civilian gun ownership is nearly nonexistent. By contrast, even with hundreds of millions of firearms in civilian hands, the United States has a rate of 21.1 deaths per 100,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Japan (20.5), France (17.9), Ireland (17.6), and Finland (20.8) all deal with suicide rates similar to the U.S. while severely restricting gun ownership. If suicide could actually be prevented by restricting access to the \u201cthe deadliest means,\u201d as the author suggests, then the rates in these countries should be extremely low.<\/p>\n<p>This is not to say that nothing should be done to prevent suicide, and the pro-gun community <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/gun-death-suicide-pro-gun-community-working-prevent-suicide-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"media-misses-suicide\" title=\"Media Misses on Gun Deaths and Vehicle Deaths Once Again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has and continues to implement measures<\/a> to reduce those rates. But if we want to effectively address these issues, obscuring reality to push an anti-gun agenda isn\u2019t going to get us there any sooner.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">***<a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/\" campaign=\"BuySellGA_Register\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a>***<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released this month their annual \u201cUnderlying Cause of Death\u201d report, and the media has, predictably, zeroed in on data related to 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