42,800 americans killed in 2003

[SavedSaint]

not to mention death by

snake/spider bites
sharp pointy opjects
foot fungus
suicides
etc...

[Gixer]

Originally posted by Yeager
By automobiles.  This is an icrease over the previous year with the fastest growing reason being SUVs and rollovers.

Alcohol was a factor in 40% of the fatalities.

How many Americans were killed in 2003 by gunshots?



...-Gixer

[stratman]

When people stop driving there SUVs like sports cars the deaths will go down .

[cpxxx]

Originally posted by Steve
Amen Beet, I think the message on the Statue of Liberty was interpreted by foreign govts as "send me your stupid, your lazy, your criminals. As a citizen of the U.S.  I can tell you we have a LOT of stupid people here.  
My rule of thumb in getting through the day: 80% of the people around me are barely functioning idiots, I must be on the alert for the inevitable; their  stupidity manifesting itself in some dangerous/foolish action or expression.

Don't be hard on yourself Steve, stupid people are evenly distributed throughout the world. There are plenty here and Beetle, plenty in Britain too, mostly Tories:D  Stupid people are put on Earth to make the rest of us look good.

[stratman]

Originally posted by cpxxx
Don't be hard on yourself Steve, stupid people are evenly distributed throughout the world. There are plenty here and Beetle, plenty in Britain too, mostly Tories:D  Stupid people are put on Earth to make the rest of us look good.

Where do you fit in?

[Airhead]

Originally posted by lazs2
...  from 1995 to 1999... an average of 48 children under the age of ten were killed accidentaly by guns per year.   Those drowning in buckets of water in the backyard were higher.

lazs

Then we need to ban buckets. Or put a safety device- say, a hole in the bottom of the bucket- to make them safe.

[Dune]

Or maybe we could seal up the holes in people's heads that allows the water in.

[Otto]

I can't prove this, but, if it were possible to know, I think we'd find out that most of the alcohol related deaths were caused by (drumroll)  Alcoholics.  For these people, their alcohol/blood content means nothing. There going to drive till they die, or kill some one.

  Lowering the percentage and arresting non-alcoholic is a 'Feel Good' but it does nothing to reduce the accident rate.   In addition, it's a 'No Brainer' for a politician because who would dare be against lower limits.

   I'm not really upset about this, it's just how things work.

[Airhead]

Originally posted by Dune
Or maybe we could seal up the holes in people's heads that allows the water in.

Make snorkels mandatory while using a bucket. And outlaw buckets with bales on them because statistics show people are more likely to drown by getting their heads stuck underneath the bales.

With proper legislation we can make it safe to use buckets. I am pro-bucket control.

[airbumba]

Originally posted by Steve
Amen Beet, I think the message on the Statue of Liberty was interpreted by foreign govts as "send me your stupid, your lazy, your criminals. As a citizen of the U.S.  I can tell you we have a LOT of stupid people here.  
My rule of thumb in getting through the day: 80% of the people around me are barely functioning idiots, I must be on the alert for the inevitable; their  stupidity manifesting itself in some dangerous/foolish action or expression.

...err, I was going to post something, but I'm afraid to say somethin stupid:(



Steve

[Holden McGroin]

Originally posted by Airhead
Then we need to ban buckets. Or put a safety device- say, a hole in the bottom of the bucket- to make them safe.

Originally recorded by Hank Williams
"I got a hole in my bucket and I can't buy no beer"

[Stoned Gecko]

The solution to stupid people problem is very very simple. Just take the safety labels off everything. The problem will take care of itself. Read my sig.

[stratman]

Simple put the safety instructions on the bottom of the bucket.

[Airhead]

Originally posted by Stoned Gecko
The solution to stupid people problem is very very simple. Just take the safety labels off everything. The problem will take care of itself. Read my sig.

I'll go you one better than that- what we need to do is have safety labels designed to fool the really stupid. Put labels on 110 volt hair driers that say "Safe for use in water," put up 120 MPH speed limit signs on mountain roads, sell heroin as a weight loss suplement- the sooner we get rid of the truly stupid the quicker we evolve into a society of more intelligent beings. Don't let stupidity hold you back.

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by beet1e
That's why the homicide rate in the US is so much higher than in the rest of the world!



j/k

Population control:D