DEA Releases New Drug Overdose Death Figures: Guns Safer than Prescription Drugs
http://wearechange.org/dea-releases...h-figures-guns-safer-than-prescription-drugs/
Full Disclosure: These are 2013 numbers.
http://wearechange.org/dea-releases...h-figures-guns-safer-than-prescription-drugs/
For all those concerned parents who think little Johnny is likely to get gunned down on the street would be better advised to keep tabs on their prescription painkillers, as Johnny is far more likely to die from popping those than from any gun in your house or in the hands of a school mate.
And, of course, one is almost three times as likely to die in an auto accident (death rate of 10.7 per 100,000) than as a result of a homicide.
Moreover, nothing listed here is even in the top ten of causes of death in the US. You’re much, much more likely to die from suicide, or “influenza and pneumonia”than anything listed above.
Full Disclosure: These are 2013 numbers.