Those who use the metric of “Gun Death” depend on suicides to fuel their numbers. Of course since they only care about the guns, and not the death, they make claims that the GUNS cause the suicides, and therefore should be banned.
Well then there’s this interesting number:
Overdose deaths in the U.S. are rising fastest among middle-aged women, and their drug of choice is usually prescription painkillers, the government reported Tuesday….For many decades, the overwhelming majority of U.S. overdose deaths were men killed by heroin or cocaine. But by 2010, 40% were women – most of them middle-aged women who took prescription painkillers.
Skyrocketing female overdose death rates are closely tied to a boom in the overall use of prescribed painkillers. The new report is the CDC’s first to spotlight how the death trend has been more dramatic among women.
The CDC found that the number and rate of prescription painkiller overdose deaths among females increased about fivefold 1999 to 2010. Among men, such deaths rose about 3½ times.
Overall, more men still die from overdoses of painkillers and other drugs; there were about 23,000 such deaths in 2010, compared with about 15,300 for women. Men tend to take more risks with drugs than women, and often are more prone to the kind of workplace injuries that lead to their being prescribed painkillers in the first place, experts say.
But the gap has been narrowing dramatically.
These are number eclipsing even “Gun Death”….but only “Gun Death” counts, so no need to look at THESE piles of bodies…they aren’t useful for their political means!
Classy, huh?
H/t Wallphone and Mrs. Weer’d
